Recent Decreasing Trends in Surface PM2.5 over East Asia in the Winter-Spring Season: Different Responses to Emissions and Meteorology between Upwind and Downwind Regions by Young-Hee Ryu, Seung-Ki Min, Alma Hodzic

“…Furthermore, it demonstrated that the decline in PM2.5 over the latter nation is attributable to control measures in China that have been in effect since 2013. The most polluted of the three target regions, the NCP, which is also upwind (in contrast to the downwind YRD and SMA), exhibited the largest decrease due to emission reduction. …”
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Relationship between Biological and Qualitative Indices in Surface Waters Receiving the Effluent of Fish Farms in the Northwest of Iran by Farhad Pourfaraj, Malek Abazari, Eslam Moradiasl, S. Amad Mokhtariai

“…It can be stated that increasing in the concentration of pollutants in the source and end of the river could lead to a sharp decrease in bio­logical index. …”
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Evaluating the Accumulation of Grain Mercury in Engineered Rice Lines Containing <i>merA</i> and <i>merB</i> Genes Under an Organic Mercury-Enriched Condition by Deyao Meng, Zhaoze Song, Jinyuan Liu, Liyang Ji, Chen Chen, Changhu Wang

“…Food security has increasingly attracted public concerns, particularly due to heavy metal pollution, which adversely impacts crop yield and quality, with cadmium and mercury being the primary culprits. …”
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Experimental inconsistencies undermine accurate characterization of microplastics and identification of environmental drivers:a metadata analysis in Chinese aquatic environment by Qinwei Chen, Peng Wang, Ru Liu, Mingjun Ding, Hua Zhang, Gaoxiang Huang, Minghua Nie

“…Microplastic pollution in surface waters is a global concern, but the driving factors remain unclear. …”
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Biotransformation of sludges from dairy and sugarcane industries through vermicomposting using the epigeic earthworm Eisenia fetida by Dayanand Sharma, Rajnikant Prasad, Bhavesh Patel, Chintak Kamalesh Parashar

“…Dairy and sugarcane industries produce end products as sludge which is directly dumped in open land which pollute the land and groundwater of the nearby areas. …”
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Fish consumption patterns and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls in fried and grilled fish products and mitigation strategies by Abhishek, S. Chakkaravarthi, Tripti Agarwal

“…The study is unique in terms of the simultaneous determination of two types of persistent organic pollutants in grilled and fried fish products. The concentration of ∑13PAHs and ∑6PCBs in these samples varied from 20.80 ± 2.06–947.65 ± 40.85 µg kg−1 and 2.86 ± 0.16–46.52 ± 0.46 µg kg−1, respectively. …”
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Monitoring of the Gasoline Oxygenate MTBE and BTEX Compounds in Groundwater in Catalonia (Northeast Spain) by J. Fraile, J.M. Niaerola, L. Olivella, M. Figueras, A. Ginebreda, M. Vilanova, D. Barcela

“…Most of them were related to leakage from underground tanks in petrol service stations, while the remaining three corresponded respectively to chemical industrial pollution of undetermined origin and to a leak from high-ground petrol tanks in petrochemical refinery factories. …”
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Water quality management of heavily contaminated urban rivers using water quality analysis simulation program by J. Jiang, T. Ri, T. Pang, Y. Wang, P. Wang

“…The actual and surplus dynamic environmental capacity of COD_Cr and NH₃-N, as the two controlling endpoints, were computed based on “segment-end-control” method for monthly or seasonal management. The dynamic pollution control scheme and monthly to annual control strategies were produced based on calculated results. …”
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Performance optimization of solar still employing red-bricks as sensible heat storage material and interfacial evaporation area by S. Mankai, S. Chemkhi, J. Madiouli, F. Ouled Saad, I. Shigidi, J. Sghaier

“…Freshwater productivity by solar desalination offers promising solutions for using clean energy, reducing environmental pollution and being cost-effective. However, solar stills require energy storage and evaporation rate improvement to overcome global water demand. …”
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In-Process Quality Inspection of Rolling Element Bearings Based on the Measurement of Microelastic Deformation of Outer Ring by Kuosheng Jiang, Lianghe Li, Liubang Han, Shuai Gou

“…However, the signal of defective bearings is easily polluted by very weak noise using the traditional vibration-based measurement method due to the low shaft speed and light radial load condition specified for nondestructive inspection, which needs complicated and time-consuming calculation and is not suitable for online inspection. …”
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Major heavy metals and human gut microbiota composition: a systematic review with nutritional approach by Mahsa Rezazadegan, Bita Forootani, Yeganeh Hoveyda, Niloufar Rezazadegan, Reza Amani

“…It can be sensitive to xenobiotics including drugs, diet, or even environmental pollutants, especially heavy metals (HMs). The findings of some previous studies are heterogeneous due to the inclusion of various types of study (human, and animal studies) and wide exposures (phthalate, bisphenol A, HMS, etc.), and no comprehensive systematic review has investigated the association between HMs exposure and human gut microbiota composition. …”
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Ecological monitoring of landscape technogenic neoplasms by Daria A. Dostovalova, Alexander Z. Glukhov, Nikolay S. Podgorodetsky, Sergey P. Zhukov

“…Rock dumps cause some damage to the environment due to the withdrawal of agricultural land from use, emissions of gorenje products, dust particles, flushing of pollutants, soil salinization, erosion of slopes. The main optimal measure to reduce the impact of rock dumps on the environment for Donbass is the biological reclamation of their surface. …”
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An Intelligent Carbon-Based Prediction of Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Anwer Mustafa Hilal, Maha M. Althobaiti, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa, Rana Alabdan, Manar Ahmed Hamza, Abdelwahed Motwakel, Mesfer Al Duhayyim, Noha Negm

“…Purification of polluted water and return back to the agriculture field is the wastewater treatment for plants. …”
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Biochar impact on physiological and biochemical attributes of Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) in nickel contaminated soil by U. Younis, M. Athar, S.A. Malik, M.H. Raza Shah, S. Mahmood

“…The results exposed significant decrease in growth, photosynthetic, physiological, and biochemical traits of S. oleracea when grown in Ni-polluted soil. However, this decrease was less pronounced in CSB amended soil.  …”
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Insights into hydraulic conductivity, mechanical properties, and microstructure of fly ash-modified clay anti-seepage layer to red mud leachate by Yibo Zhang, Yujie Ding, Yulong Wang, Yue Yu, Qian Chen, Zheng Wu

“…This study explores the use of fly ash-modified clay liners as a solution to contain and treat red mud leachate pollutants, including heavy metals and alkalis. Macro-scale tests, such as permeation and unconfined compression tests, combined with micro-scale analyses (XRD, SEM, BET), investigate the influence of varying fly ash content on the hydraulic conductivity, mechanical properties, and microstructure of the clay liners. …”
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Phage display technology in ecotoxicology: phage display derived unique peptide for copper identification in aquatic samples by Marta Sosnowska, Tomasz Łęga, Marcin Olszewski, Beata Gromadzka

“…Abstract Background Ecotoxicology is essential for the evaluation and comprehension of the effects of emergency pollutants (EP) such as heavy metal ions on the natural environment. …”
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Bisphenol S impairs oocyte quality by inducing gut microbiota dysbiosis by Jiaming Zhang, Xiaoxia Yu, Weidong Li, Yunjing Jiang, Liangran Zhang, Shunxin Wang

“…Overall, this study not only demonstrates that BPS exposure impairs the intestine and oocytes by inducing dysbiosis of the gut microbiota but also develops a preventive strategy.IMPORTANCEOocyte development is vulnerable to stimulation by intrinsic and extrinsic factors, particularly many environmental pollutants and chemicals in daily life. The reproductive toxicity of bisphenol S has been of great concern, although it is widely used as a safe substitute for its analog bisphenol A. …”
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Mycorrhizal fungi mitigate cadmium leaching losses by decreasing the inorganic cadmium proportion in soil solutions by Wei Li, Jiong Wu, Jie Yan, Xinran Liang, Xiaoyi Li, Yongmei He, Bo Li, Fangdong Zhan

“…Structural equation analysis revealed that the GRSP and LMWOAs were the primary factors driving the potential of AMF to reduce Cd leaching loss from polluted soil. The adsorption of Cd ions by quartz sand increased with the application of GRSP and LMWOAs, which resulted in a 27.6 %–69.5 % reduction in Cd leaching loss in the sand column. …”
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Modification of Chitosan-Coated Magnetic Material with Glycidyl-trimethylammonium Chloride for Cr(VI) Adsorption by Salwa Kamilia, Feri Mukhayani, Sutarno Sutarno, Nuryono Nuryono

“…The study of kinetics and adsorption isotherm showed that the adsorption of Cr(VI) anion on the adsorbent MM/Chit/GTMAC (with the mass ratio of Chit to GTMAC 1:6) follows the pseudo-second-order kinetic model with the adsorption rate constant of 5.3 × 10−3 g mg−1 min−1 and Langmuir isotherms with the adsorption maximum capacity of 104.17 mg g−1, which has a potential to be applied for removing Cr(VI) from polluted wastewater.…”
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Bio-indicator Bacteria Levels in Riva Stream, an Important Stream in İstanbul, Türkiye by Serap Koşal Şahin, Selma Dilara Karaman Baş, Meryem Öztaş, Gülşen Altuğ, Pelin Saliha Çiftçi Türetken

“…Bacterial pollution is the presence of harmful bacteria in aquatic ecosystems, which can cause health problems if ingested. …”
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