This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on habitat degradation and changes in Lake Victoria fisheries; conservation status of zostera marina populations in the Mexican Pacific; sustainable water resources management in the Sudan; organic and inorganic particulate matter in urban ambient air; the distribution of organic carbon and composition of the carboniferous mud in the Baltic Sea; heavy metals in the environment; outdoor air pollution and total suspended particles concentration; toxic metalloid arsenic contaminants; and post dam hydro-geomorphic alteration of the Dwarka River in Eastern India.