Contamination of the terrestrial ecosystem caused by landfill leachate can cause irreparable damage to soil organisms, as well as to human health. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the ecotoxicity of in natura ...

Municipal Solid Waste Landfill leachate poses a high risk to the environment because of its high contamination potential. In landfills, the percolation of this contaminant is contained through the liner. However, the ...

Small and shallow alluvial aquifers in arid and semi-arid regions are a strategic source of water that has been largely used for irrigation and livestock feeding. Geological settings and the small scale of these aquifers ...

This study proposes a combined approach of the DPSIR (Driving forces-Pressures-State-Impact-Response) model with water allocation modelling to evaluate water demand management strategies in the ...

Polishing Lagoons (LP) are post-treatment units treated with effluents previously treated anaerobically. As LP depends on some factors so that it can perform well, such as the hydrodynamic regime to be operated (continuous ...

Depending on the dynamics of a landfill operation, the gravimetric composition of the waste and weather conditions, factors such as the applied normal stress, moisture content and unit weight of the waste vary at ...

The need to develop and improve structural analysis systems for flexible pavements enabled the emergence of new evaluation methods of its mechanical behavior. Instrumentation is based on install strain gages, pressure cells ...

Accurate information on the land cover is crucial for efficient monitoring and development of environmental studies in the Brazilian Caatinga forest, one of the largest and most biodiverse dry forests on the planet. ...

The impacts resulting from the population increase and the urbanization process are intensified when the anthropic activities occur in an unsustainable way, causing several social, economic and environmental problems. Such ...

The inadequate land use and occupation, combined with deficiencies in basic sanitation, generate major impacts on Brazilian watersheds. The clandestine release of domestic sewage and solid waste into the drainage system ...