2025 February-2 - 144 articles
Tailings ponds can recycle water resources through the water recirculation system by clarifying and purifying the wastewater discharged from the mining production process. Due to factors such as flooding and heavy rainfall, once a tailings dams burst...
This study investigated key factors in the petrochemical industry and evaluated the oxidation performance of ozonation catalytic oxidation for treating phenol-simulated wastewater and actual wastewater spiked with phenol. In simulated phenol wastewat...
Accurate prediction of total phosphorus (TP) in water quality is critical for monitoring ecosystem stability and eutrophication status. However, the distribution of natural environmental data such as total phosphorus (TP) in water quality tends to un...
Long, narrow, deep excavations commonly encountered in practice, such as those for subway stations, require effective groundwater management to prevent disasters in water-rich areas. To achieve this, a cut-off curtain and pumping well are typically e...
Water availability is an important aspect of life. With the increasing number of humans with the same water cycle, it is possible that water scarcity will occur, including in Bandung City, especially in Jatisari Village, Buahbatu District. Public awa...
Furazolidone, a nitrofuran antibiotic, has been broadly used in aquaculture and veterinary medicine, and its presence in water poses considerable environmental and health hazards due to its toxicity. This study investigated a hybrid photocatalytic pr...
Freshwater ecosystems face increasing pressures from human activities, leading to degraded water quality and altered habitats for aquatic species. This study investigates the relationship between water quality and waterbird distribution along the Lie...
The growing and unprecedented water crisis leads to the need to find alternative water resources, and the reuse of treated urban wastewater is an excellent approach. Accordingly, in this work, the disinfection of a secondary effluent (W) discharged f...
Increases in the magnitude and frequency of extreme flood events are among the most impactful consequences of climate change. Coastal areas can potentially be affected by interactions among different flood drivers at the interface of terrestrial and...
The degradation of groundwater quality due to mining activities is a major public concern globally. This study employed a combination of methods (multivariate statistics, Self-organizing mapping, and PHREEQC hydrogeochemical simulation) to uncover th...
The stability of slopes is influenced by seasonal variations in thermal, hydrological, and mechanical processes. This study investigates the role of snowmelt in triggering shallow landslides through controlled laboratory experiments simulating winter...
In this study, statistical analysis was conducted to categorize a large number of actual typical cases and analyze the formation conditions of toppling deformation in bedding rock slopes. Based on geological prototypes and similarity theory, a bottom...
Adsorption methods represent a common practice used for heavy metals removal from aqueous solutions. As adsorbent material, zeolites have an excellent adsorption capacity and present low environmental impact. The zeolite used for this study was synth...
Open-pit mining often exposes weak rock layers, the strength of which significantly affects the stability of slopes. If these rock layers are also prone to disintegration and expansion, cyclic rainfall can exacerbate instability. Rainfall-induced cha...
Water chlorination, fundamental for its microbiological safety, generates by-products, such as trihalomethanes (THMs), potentially associated with carcinogenic and reproductive risks. This study determined the levels of chloroform (CHCl3) in drinking...
A novel β-cyclodextrin–graphene oxide (β-CD/GO) composite adsorbent was synthesized via a hydrothermal method. Removal efficiency and mechanisms of typical pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) by the β-CD/GO composit...
This study addresses the issue of biofouling on marine aquaculture cages, where organisms like algae and purple mussels negatively impact both the safety of the aquaculture environment and the integrity of the cages. To solve this problem, the paper...
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the series of processes involved in designing, manufacturing, installing, and operating a practical Surface Image Flowmeter (SIF) system, complete with suitable hardware and software. By ‘practical&r...
Quantitatively analyzing the factors influencing the horizontal migration of microplastics (MPs) in water bodies and understanding their movement patterns are crucial for explaining and predicting their transport principles and final destinations. Th...
Microbial desalination cells (MDCs) are an efficient method for the desalination of saline wastewater driven by the metabolism of bacteria via an organic oxidation mechanism. Systematic studies have been conducted to elucidate anion-dominated interac...
The Haor region in northeastern Bangladesh, characterized by seasonal wetlands and a heavy reliance on fisheries, faces significant challenges due to climate change. Erratic rainfall, prolonged flooding, and ecosystem degradation threaten traditional...
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) in 2024, gives us at least 7 years of data to analyze accounting for technology samples in marine and ships’ ballast water...
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The Lhasa River, as one of the major rivers on the Tibetan Plateau, is of great value for the study of climate and environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau. In this paper, the grain size and the mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of th...
This study explores the chemical composition of different macrophyte species and infers their potential in extracting nutrients and some heavy metals from water as well as the use of macrophytes’ biomass as natural fertilizers. It used a datase...
The provision of clean water is a vital element to ensure life sustainability; this can be achieved by designing and implementing effective prevention and control measures to protect water resources [...]
Climate change is promoting the occurrence of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms (HCBs) across freshwaters, posing serious risks for the ecosystems and human health. Under these warmer conditions, particularly blooms of invasive Aphanizomenon-like species...
The growing demand for renewable energy sources and the need to optimize water use in agriculture, particularly in water-scarce regions, highlights the importance of growing species suitable for semi-arid areas, such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Mo...
The dynamic loads of fluid impact and static loads, such as the gravity of a rock mass during the formation of debris flows, exhibit a coupled effect of mutual influence. Under this coupling effect, surface monitoring points in disaster areas experie...
Piezometers located near watercourses experiencing periodic fluctuations provide a means to analyse soil properties and derive key hydrogeological parameters through pressure wave transmission analysis, which is affected in amplitude and time (lag)....
To improve the accuracy of leak identification and location of water supply pipelines, a novel convolution gated recurrent unit method based on the attention mechanism is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a convolutional neural network is used to capt...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a crucial role in mitigating microplastic (MP) release to the environment. In this paper, a WWTP of a textile manufacturing plant in Guangdong, China, was investigated to identify MP characteristics and the ef...
The residual non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) within low-permeability lenses of aquifers is a major contributor to “tailing”, a phenomenon that complicates the remediation of NAPL-contaminated sites. A fundamental challenge in addressing t...
Groundwater pollution in landfill-adjacent regions presents a critical environmental and public health issue. This study evaluates groundwater quality in Xiangyang City, focusing on drinking water sources and key pollution points near landfill sites....
Seaweed plays a critical role in marine carbon sequestration due to its high release rate of organic matter. However, the impacts of Porphyra cultivation on the concentration and composition of dissolved, particulate and sedimentary organic matter (D...
Soil moisture (SM) is crucial for agricultural production and ecological restoration, and high-resolution SM data can be efficiently acquired through downscaling remote sensing products. Although deep learning is widely used for downscaling, its mech...
Accurately predicting the impacts of climate change on hydrological fluxes in ungauged basins continues to be a complex task. In this study, we investigated the transferability of the model parameters SCS-SMA-LR, available in the ATHYS platform, to s...
Vegetation water content, characterized by vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and vegetation optical depth (VOD), can represent vegetation health in terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, using remote sensing Ku-band VOD and VPD, the spatiotemporal distrib...
Mine slope landslides can lead to significant geological disasters. To investigate the impact of temperature cycling on the internal mechanisms that trigger these disasters in weak interlayers with varying moisture contents, a THMC-B multi-field coup...
Antibiotics in aquaculture pose significant environmental risks due to their widespread distribution in water, impacting ecosystem health. To address this hot issue, an ozone-assisted hydrodynamic cavitation (OAHC) system was developed for the effici...
Lead (Pb) is one of the most relevant contaminants due to its high toxicity, even at low concentrations. The growing need for research about real-time Pb analysis in the field has driven advancements in portable, sensitive, and automated analytical m...
Increasing water use efficiency (WUE) is a key way to produce high crop yield under water resources deficit regions. North China produces approximately 60% of the total Chinese wheat while suffering great water shortages. Therefore, this paper aims t...
The core of saline–alkali soil improvement lies in salt leaching by water and reducing alkalinity by improved materials such as acid material or desulphurized gypsum. This study conducted simulation experiments to clarify the impact of furfural...
Achieving simultaneous anammox and denitrification is a feasible approach for enhancing nitrogen removal in mainstream anammox processes. Nevertheless, the optimal C/N range and microbial dynamics driving this process are still not fully understood....
The importance of sustainable use of water sources in the context of social economy development is a topic of interest in the context of current regional and global challenges. The main objective of this study is to analyze the disparity of correlati...
Denitrification is a permanent nitrogen removal pathway; thus, it is a desirable ecosystem function in water bodies receiving agricultural runoff. Knowledge of denitrification capacity in response to vegetation type and varying NO3− loads is es...
This study investigated the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to the nutrient status of 33 representative lakes and reservoirs in the Yangtze River Basin. Using national water quality monitoring data, remote sensing imagery,...
Temporary permeable structures of bamboo and brushwood have been implemented for mangrove restoration along retreating coastlines worldwide. However, deriving lessons from previous studies is inhibited by their lack of morphodynamic context, with mis...
In comparison with traditional species identification techniques, environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding technology markedly enhances the resolution and precision of species classification, while simultaneously facilitating the efficiency and accurac...
Urban water usage spans diverse sectors, requiring effective management strategies to address increasing demand, limited supplies, and sector-specific needs. In this study, a multi-objective urban water resource allocation model is proposed to balanc...
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