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Soil and Air Pollution in the Era of COVID-19: A Global Issue

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soils, food security and human health

Abstract

By the end of 2019, the universe was woken up to see one of the unprecedented dramatic catastrophes all the over the world, which called the COVID-19 pandemic or coronavirus. This virus already changed the global map and enforced the globe to start a new era that no one can predict the volume of changes worldwide on social, economic and environmental levels. The pollution of soil and air as two compartments of the agroecosystem were and still represent two vital columns of the environment structure. Based on the social distancing, lockdown and quarantine, the air pollution was reduced in several cities worldwide, whereas this relationship on soil as a complex system still needs mor and more investigations. Therefore, the most immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on soils and vice versa are mainly depending on the human activities. The managing soils may include both restoring of soils from the virus impacts and to sustain crop yields for long-term sustainability to keep the soil healthy for next generations. Therefore, this review is an attempt to highlight the mutual impact of COVID-19 on pollution of soil and air. Many open questions are needed to be investigated such as what are the expected environmental impacts of COVID-19 on soil and air? Is there any links between air pollution and COVID-19? Is there any role of soil in spreading the COVID-19 pandemic? What about the soil pollution status under COVID-19 outbreak? What is the projected management scenario of soil and air pollution under COVID-19 outbreak? What is the potential presence of COVID-19 and its behavior in the soil?

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2020.49996.1411

Keywords

environmental pollution, Virus corona, SARS-CoV-2, soil health, Air Quality

Authors

First Name

Hassan

Last Name

El-Ramady

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

soil and water dept. faculty of agriculture

Email

ramady2000@gmail.com

City

Kafr El-Sheikh

Orcid

0000-0002-1113-726X

First Name

Eric

Last Name

Brevik

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Departments of Natural Sciences and Agriculture and Technical Studies, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND 5860,1 USA

Email

eric.brevik@dickinsonstate.edu

City

Dickinson

Orcid

-

First Name

Megahed

Last Name

Amer

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Soils Improvement and Conservation Res. Department, Soils, Water and Environment Res. Institute,Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt.

Email

megahedamer3@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-6665-4838

First Name

Tamer

Last Name

Elsakhawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agriculture Microbiology Department, Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI), Sakha Agricultural Research Station, Agriculture Research Center (ARC), 33717 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt,

Email

drelsakhawyg@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Alaa El-Dein

Last Name

Omara Ahmed

MiddleName

Abdelghaffar

Affiliation

Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Sakha, ARC.

Email

alaa.omara@yahoo.com

City

Kafr El-Sheikh

Orcid

0000-0001-5622-7501

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Elbasiouny

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of environmental and biological science, home economy Faculty, Al-Azhar university, Egypt.

Email

hebaelbasiouny@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-7245-6483

First Name

Fathy

Last Name

Elbehiry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

KFS uni

Email

fathyelbehiry@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mosa

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Soil dept. Fac. of Agric Mansoura University , Mansoura . Egypt

Email

ahmedmosa@mans.edu.eg

City

Elmansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Ayman

Last Name

El-Ghamry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

soil and water dept. faculty of agriculture, Mansoura Uni.

Email

ame.egypt@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Yousry

Last Name

Bayoumi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

Email

ybayoumi2002@yahoo.com.sg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Shalaby

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Arid-land Agriculture Department, College of Agricultural and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, KSA

Email

tshalaby@kfu.edu.sa

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

60

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

17196

Issue Date

2020-12-01

Receive Date

2020-11-16

Publish Date

2020-12-01

Page Start

437

Page End

448

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

Article File

EJSS_Volume 60_Issue 4_Pages 437-448.pdf

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_126520.html

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=126520

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42

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Review papers

Type Code

25

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

Publication Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Soil and Air Pollution in the Era of COVID-19: A Global Issue

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Created At

22 Jan 2023