Crude oil exploration in Africa: socio-economic implications, environmental impacts, and mitigation strategies

AO Adeola, AS Akingboye, OT Ore… - … Systems and Decisions, 2022 - Springer
Crude oil exploration is a source of significant revenue in Africa via trade and investment
since its discovery in the mid-19th Century. Crude oil has bolstered the continent's economy …

Experimental exploration of hybrid nanofluids as energy-efficient fluids in solar and thermal energy storage applications

H Yasmin, SO Giwa, S Noor, M Sharifpur - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In response to the issues of environment, climate, and human health coupled with the
growing demand for energy due to increasing population and technological advancement …

[HTML][HTML] Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban street dust within three land-uses of Babylon governorate, Iraq: Distribution, sources, and health risk …

RA Grmasha, OJ Al-sareji, JM Salman… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study is considered to be the first investigation of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) in terms of distribution and sources identification for three land-use in Babylon …

Effect of gas flaring, oil rent and fossil fuel on economic performance: The case of Nigeria

LU Okoye, BN Adeleye, EE Okoro, JI Okoh, GK Ezu… - Resources Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The study investigates the effect of gas flaring, oil rent and fossil fuel on economic growth in
Nigeria from 1990 to 2019 using the autoregressive distributed lag error correction (ARDL …

Children's exposure to air pollution in a natural gas industrial area and their risk of hospital admission for respiratory diseases

MF Ibrahim, R Hod, MABA Tajudin… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of the natural gas industry to meet the global demand have raised
environmental health concerns. Few studies have found that areas with natural gas …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate matters pollution in selected areas of Nigeria: Spatial analysis and risk assessment

MA Lala, CS Onwunzo, OA Adesina… - Case Studies in Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing rate of unregulated emissions of particulate matters from different sources in
Nigeria is of great concern. This study therefore focused on monitoring particulate matters …

Gas flaring, ineffective utilization of energy resource and associated economic impact in Nigeria: Evidence from ARDL and Bayer-Hanck cointegration techniques

EE Okoro, BN Adeleye, LU Okoye, O Maxwell - Energy policy, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 7 which aims at “ensuring access to
affordable, clean energy, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”. The Gazetted …

[HTML][HTML] The Apaguen los Mecheros campaign: Supporting climate justice in the Amazonian cities of Ecuador by estimating the health risks of gas flaring

F Facchinelli, E Crescini, G Della Fera… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract On 26 January 2021, the Court of Nueva Loja banned oil-related gas flaring (GF)
activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region (EAR), establishing a term of 18 months for GF …

Gas flaring: a review focused on its analysis from space

M Faruolo, A Caseiro, T Lacava… - IEEE geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article represents the current state of the art in analyzing gas flaring (GF) from space.
GF is a prominent source of air pollution, with significant global and local impacts. Its …

The role of meteorological variables and aerosols in the transmission of COVID‐19 during harmattan season

S Ogunjo, O Olaniyan, CF Olusegun, F Kayode… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The role of atmospheric parameters and aerosols in the transmission of COVID‐19 within
tropical Africa, especially during the harmattan season, has been under‐investigated in …