Heavy metals concentrations in the environment increases alarmingly. Heavy metals profoundly affect biological systems either positively because they are essential in low concentrations or negatively because they are toxic. ...

Waste and pollution have become global concerns. Bioremediation and bioprevention-the use of micro-organisms to treat or avoid pollution are increasingly recognised as treatments of choice in an impressive range of areas. ...

Petroleum perhaps is one of the most important substances to the modern society, due to its wide use in the most diverse productive sectors. Besides serving as raw material to the production of plastics and other compounds, ...

Soil is the final destination of several types of residues of anthropic origin, discharged intentionally or accidentally. The environmental impacts resulted from the petroleum industry in the terrestrial ecosystem are a ...

Among the bioremediation processes, biostimulation is an effective methodology for the decontamination of organic waste by the addition of agents that stimulate the indigenous microbiota development. Rice hull is a ...

Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles including recycling of substances, ...

Environments co-contaminated with metals and organic compounds are difficult to remediate. Actinobacteria is an important group of microorganisms found in soils, with high metabolic versatility and potential for bioremediation. ...

Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles including recycling of substances, ...

Bioremediation is an advantageous and sustainable technology to remediate contaminated environments since it is cost-effective and environmentally safe. However, some pollutants such as most organochlorine pesticides and ...