Groundwater (GW) constitutes the most important source of drinking water, and despite the
benefit of pesticides in food production, the contamination of GW by biologically active …

Argentina has 31 million hectares given over to agriculture comprising 2.2% of the world's
total area under cultivation (Stock Exchange of Rosario, Argentina). Despite the intensity of …

An increase in the spatial variability of rainfall is expected due to climate change. This
implies increasing rainfall rates during spring and summer in the Pampas region, Argentina …

Exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water is a major threat to human health. Millions
of people across the world are exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water with …

Metribuzin (MB) is a triazinone herbicide used for the eradication of weeds in agriculture.
Presence of its residues in agricultural soil can potentially harm the establishment of …

Metribuzin (4-amino-6-tert-butyl-4, 5-dihydro-3-methylthio-1, 2, 4-triazin-5-one), is weakly
sorbed to soil therefore, leaches easily to lower soil profiles. Soil amendments play a …

The widely-used pyrethroid pesticides have attracted public attention because of their
potentials to cause environmental pollution and toxic effects on non-target organisms …

Purpose To evaluate atrazine behavior in an agricultural soil (adsorption–desorption,
leaching) and the effects of bioaugmentation with the Arthrobacter sp. strain AAC22, as a …

By enrichment culturing of soil contaminated with metribuzin, a highly efficient metribuzin
degrading bacterium, Bacillus sp. N1, was isolated. This strain grows using metribuzin at …

The fate of pesticides in tropical soils is still not understood as well as it is for soils in
temperate regions. In this study, water flow and transport of bromide tracer and five …