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Message from EditorDear Readers,It is the great honor for us to publish seventh volume, first issue of World Journal of EnvironmentalResearch (WJER). The journal welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literaturereview articles focusing on environmental issues. World Journal of Environmental Research is aninternational peer-refereed journal which publishes global research articles about all aspects ofenvironmental areas with the aim of sharing the findings of different environmental issues to providecontributions to the scientific studies.The scope of the journal includes major topics such as environmental agriculture, environmentalbiology, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, environmental health,environmental nanotechnology, environmental microbiology, environmental toxicology,environmental pollution and monitoring, environmental zoology, environmental ethics andbiosciences, environmental informatics, environmental biochemistry, environmental genetics,environmental botany, environmental issues related to biosciences, environmental biophysics,environmental geology.Squash seed oil as thermal stabilizer, the role of integrated conservation development programs inNepal, social responsibility of media on environmental dangers, heavy metals in some moss speciesand national energy strategies of Germany and Turkey topics have been included into this issue. Thetopics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you withour journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2017 Volume.A total number of twelve (12) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has beensubjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At theend of the review process, a total number of five (5) high quality research papers were selected andaccepted for publication.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Haluk SoranEditor – in Chief