Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places
enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Strip**, excavation, transportation and …

Global warming risks from emissions of green house gases (GHGs) by anthropogenic
activities, and possible mitigation strategies of terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration have …

Soil quality indicators (SQIs) can be used to evaluate sustainability of land use and soil
management practices in agroecosystems. The objective of this study was to identify …

The generation of bauxite residue, the by-product of alumina manufacture from bauxite ore,
has increased to a global stockpile of some 3 billion tonnes. In the absence of significant …

Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning basic soil physics
and its application to environment, soil health, water quality and productivity, this book …

Minesoils are drastically influenced by anthropogenic activities. They are characterized by
low soil organic matter (SOM) content, low fertility, and poor physicochemical and biological …

In the Appalachian region, coal mining has impacted 600,000 ha historically. While a return
to forest would be a preferable postmining land use, due to the difficulty and higher costs of …

Reclamation of opencast coal mine significantly ameliorates the degraded edaphic
characteristics. The long-term changes of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools in reclaimed …

Surface coal mining operations alter landscapes of the Appalachian Mountains, United
States, by replacing bedrock with mine spoil, altering topography, removing native …

Mine soils are often physically degraded, which hinders plants development. The untreated
soils at the depleted copper mine in Touro (Galicia, north-west Spain) have no vegetation …