Presentation of interdisciplinary research on Environmental Biology in each issue: JEB shows the way

ABSTRACT

After touching the mile stone of 40th year of service to society in general and scientific community in particular (see RC Dalela in doi.org./10.22438/jeb/40/1/Editorial), Journal of Environmental Biology(JEB) has introduced further productive steps, one of them being the Editorial, highlighting the importance of articles featuring in each issue. The present issue (JEB vol. 40, issue 2, 2019) contains 19 articles, covering both basic and applied aspects of Environmental Biology. Since Rachel Carson's seminal work Silent Spring in 1962 on the organochlorine pesticides, a great attention has been paid to the indiscriminate use of persistent organic compounds in agriculture sector. Kaur et al. (in this issue) presented some valuable information about the presence of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB-28, from tissues of fish species Cirrhinus mrigala, Heteropneustes fossilis and Catla catla obtained from river Sutlej. In another ecotoxicological study using organophoshates, Samal et al. have observed reduced soil microbial growth and lowered exoenzyme activity due to pesticides