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MICROBIAL ANALYSIS OF SEWAGE SLUDGE SHOWS CLOSER MONITORING NEEDED FOR LANDFILL WASTE
Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Waste and Resource Management. 2022. Vol. 175. No. 2. P. 57–63.
A method of high-throughput sequencing of gene libraries was used to identify the microbial communities in samples of sewage sludge at waste treatment facilities in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was established that the waste had a complicated taxonomic structure and consisted of two main domains: Archaea (8.4% average) and Bacteria (77.6% average). The Archaea domain included three phyla (methanogens): Euryarchaeota, Crenarchaeota and Parvarchaeota. The Bacteria domain was represented by 49 phyla, including Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Cyanobacteria, Planctomycetes, Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria and Verrucomicrobia. Up to 2.8% share of methanogens in sewage sludge deposited in landfills for around 15 years indicated the ongoing destruction of organic matter. In addition, ten pathogenic microorganisms were detected, including Clostridium and Mycobacterium. The results indicated that the national regulatory requirements for waste in Russia need to be reviewed in terms of compiling a list of standardised indicators for environmental monitoring of landfill sites.
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Ermolin I., Suvorkov P., Conservation Biology 2026 No. e70300 P. 1–10
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing driven by artisanal small-scale fisheries is a critical threat to global biodiversity and is exemplified by the commercial extinction of Caspian sturgeons (Acipenser and Huso). A key knowledge gap persists regarding the scale and behavioral dynamics of these operations.We tested the hypothesis that persistent high-volume sturgeon poaching is sustained ...
Added: April 25, 2026
Ершов И. А., Системная инженерия и инфокоммуникации 2025 № 4 С. 11–14
The heat consumption of residential buildings is a stochastic series. It is necessary for the design of thermal energy regulators the creation of a neural network model. In the paper, the model is carried out based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). The high accuracy of reproducing the series was achieved by training the model on ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Enchilik P. R., G.V.Klink, Semenkov I. N., Science of the Total Environment 2025 Vol. 998 Article 180219
Natural regeneration of forest soils affected by agricultural practices is a common phenomenon in many regions worldwide, particularly in boreal ecosystems. Affecting soil quality, the partitioning of extractable fractions of heavy metals and metalloids (HMMs) is not studied during natural regeneration. The following stages of natural regeneration after plowing have been identified in the Smolenskoye ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Barut A., Proskuryakova L. N., Yakutkina V. et al., Renewable Energy 2026 Vol. 267 Article 125736
The global demand for rare earth metals (REM) has exceeded the global supply, exacerbating the deficit of these resources for wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and nuclear reactors. The largest REM exporting and importing countries have the power to influence energy transition in their own countries and around the world. This study analyzes the ...
Added: April 8, 2026
S. S. Bricheva, P. M. Shilov, Yurchenko A. P. et al., Eurasian Soil Science 2025 Vol. 58 Article 74
The high variability of properties in urban soils and the abundance of anthropogenic inclusions that interfere with the propagation of electromagnetic fields are the reasons why they are seldom studied by geophysics. At the same time, geophysics is an efficient and fast way to diagnose soil structure and dynamics without affecting the functioning of the ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Dregulo A., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2026 Vol. 33 No. 8 P. 3252–3265
The present study focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and sewage sludge disposal at landfill. Traces of ammonium, dihydrosulfide, phenol, formaldehyde, various hydrocarbons, and mercaptans have been identified. The dynamics of these gases are especially intense during the purification process from grids to aerotanks. Methane concentrations fluctuated more than sixfold in the wastewater ...
Added: February 10, 2026
A. S. Baybar, M. Yu. Puzachenko, R. B. Sandlersky, Geography and Natural Resources 2025 Vol. 46 No. S1 P. S15–S22
This article presents a methodology for landscape mapping based on the integration of long-term series of multispectral data and morphometric characteristics of the relief for various hierarchical levels. Using the example of the Central Forest Reserve and its adjacent territory, where both indigenous and anthropogenically modified geosystems are combined, it is shown that the identification ...
Added: January 14, 2026
Nadezhda Kerimova, Akimov P., Ntoumanis I. et al., Scientific Reports 2025 Vol. 15 Article 43524
Previous studies have demonstrated that people focus on fewer specific features of natural environments compared to built environments. This may imply that neural activity stronger converge across individuals in green environments than in built environments, where people may focus very differently on diverse and often overloading urban stimulation. We hypothesized that the similarity of mental ...
Added: January 10, 2026
Yakimov B., Zaznobina N., Kuznetsova I. et al., Land 2025 Vol. 14 No. 10 Article 2073
This study provides the first comprehensive, field-inventory-based assessment of urban ecosystem services within a Russian university campus, focusing on the woody vegetation of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Utilizing a detailed field tree inventory combined with the i-Tree framework (including i-Tree Eco, i-Tree Canopy, UFORE, and i-Tree Hydro models), we quantified the campus’s ...
Added: November 24, 2025
Nikolaev A., Kychkin A., Journal of Mining Institute 2025 Vol. 275 P. 18–29
Controlling the ventilation in underground mining enterprises (UME), characterized by high inertia and numerous influencing external factors, based on real-time sensor data located in mine workings and on the surface, with a high level of accuracy in regulating air supply by the main ventilation unit (MVU), is feasible only under conditions of a pre-defined sequence ...
Added: November 4, 2025
Иркутск: Институт географии им. В.Б. Сочавы Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук, 2025.
The collection contains materials from reports dedicated to the memory of the outstanding geographer and geobotanist, Academician V.B. Sochava (1905–1978), founder and first director of the Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (now the V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of ...
Added: September 7, 2025
ЦЭПЛ РАН, 2025.
The collection presents abstracts of 59 reports, which consider the issues of the current state of scientific and technical developments in the field of forestry and forestry, the application of new methods and technologies for complex analysis of satellite data and ground survey materials.
Much attention in the conference materials is given to the development of ...
Added: September 7, 2025
Gaeva D. V., Географическая среда и живые системы 2025 № 1 Статья 1
Цель. На общем фоне глобального потепления климата изучить региональные особенности этого процесса как фактора риска здоровью населения Калининградской области.
Процедура и методы. Исследование базируется на данных о среднемесячной и годовой температуре воздуха и количества осадков метеорологических станций Калининградской области за различные периоды 1949–2022 гг. Выполнена статистическая обработка временных рядов с выявлением трендов и аномалий на основе стандартных программ.
Результаты. Отмечены ...
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Moskovchenko D., Roman Fedorov, Fakhretdinov A., Urban Ecosystems 2025 No. 28 Article 155
The northern part of western Siberia, which comprises the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, is one of the most urbanized areas exposed to the subarctic climate. Here, we study the specifc socio-natural interactions afected by the development of urban green infrastructure in such climatic zones as middle and northern taiga, as ...
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Makarov I. A., Stepanov I., L.: Routledge, 2024.
This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China. It uncovers international, national, and subnational dimensions in sustainable development and aims to facilitate understanding of pressing environmental problems in the region.
While supporting the values and goals of sustainable development at the international level, states might employ very different strategies ...
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Le M. T., Bakaeva N. V., Construction Materials and Products 2024 Vol. 7 No. 5 Article 10
Large cities, as financial centres, attract a dense adult population, leading to a high demand for housing. This growth requires urban expansion and increased building density, which disrupts the ecosystem and gives rise to a concentrated urban heat island (UHI). In a study conducted in Moscow, a numerical climate simulation model was used to explore ...
Added: July 22, 2025
Pavel Malyzhenkov, Chidichimo G., La Torre C. et al., Fibers 2025 Vol. 13 No. 5 Article 14
The extraction of Spanish broom fibers presents significant commercial opportunities.
However, the traditional production process is associated with a high environmental
impact and considerable waste. This work demonstrates how to address the limitations of
alkaline maceration by employing a natural maceration process. This innovative method
not only reduces environmental harm but also facilitates the extraction of large quantities of
pectin ...
Added: July 14, 2025
Soldatova A., Stolyarov A. I., Банковские услуги 2025 № 2 С. 22–34
The mining sector plays a key role in the global industry, providing resources to various sectors of the economy and production. As already explored mineral deposits are exhausted, companies specializing in the exploration of new deposits will play an increasingly important role. In developed countries, most new deposits are developed by small ("junior") companies. To ...
Added: July 7, 2025
Switzerland: Springer, 2025.
This book discusses the sustainable management and conversion of food waste into various resources through biological resource recovery techniques. An overview is given of the present challenges facing food waste management, why food waste reduction in general is a pressing issue, and the current treatment methods for food waste to minimize adverse environmental and human ...
Added: June 25, 2025