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Environments, Volume 12, Issue 3

March 2025 - 27 articles

Cover Story: Rising nitrate contamination endangers water quality and ecosystems, necessitating advanced modeling. This study uses a Long Short-Term Memory model to assess multi-year nitrate trends in Alabama’s rivers and aquifers. By integrating hydrologic and environmental factors, this machine learning model identifies the main drivers of nitrate fluctuations and explores surface water–groundwater interactions. The results highlight streamflow and groundwater levels as primary influences, with synthetic data addressing monitoring gaps. These findings enhance data-driven water quality management and deepen the understanding of nitrate transport in interconnected water systems. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
924 Views
19 Pages

Can Ecological Outcomes Be Used to Assess Soil Health?

  • Isabella C. F. Maciel,
  • Guilhermo F. S. Congio,
  • Eloa M. Araujo,
  • Morgan MathisonSlee,
  • Matt R. Raven and
  • Jason E. Rowntree

Soil health is typically evaluated using physical, chemical, and biological parameters. However, identifying cost-effective and interpretable metrics remains a challenge. The effectiveness of ecological outcome verification (EOV) in predicting soil h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,552 Views
22 Pages

Evaluating Solutions to Marine Plastic Pollution

  • Diego Vergara,
  • Javier de la Hoz-M,
  • Edwan Anderson Ariza-Echeverri,
  • Pablo Fernández-Arias and
  • Álvaro Antón-Sancho

The pollution of the oceans by plastic waste is one of the major environmental problems of our time. It is estimated that there are millions of tons of polymers floating on the surface of the oceans, concentrated in several large plastic accumulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,265 Views
14 Pages

Evaluating the Efficacy of Thiolating Agents for Biochar Surface Modification

  • Oluyinka Aduloju,
  • Arnav Pandey,
  • Frieda Eivazi,
  • Sougata Bardhan and
  • Zahra Afrasiabi

As a cost-effective sorbent, modified biochar has received increasing attention for the removal of heavy metal contaminants. Among several chemical modification methods, introducing thiol functional groups onto the surface of biochar has been identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,560 Views
20 Pages

Groundwater/Surface Water Temperature Variations and Hydrogeological Implications in Doñana National Park

  • José Luis Yanes,
  • Alejandro Jiménez-Bonilla,
  • Marina Martínez-Caro,
  • Ana Fernández-Ayuso and
  • Miguel Rodríguez-Rodríguez

This study analyzes the evolution of surface water and groundwater temperatures at various depths in the sand-dune ponds of Doñana National Park (southern Spain) over eight hydrometeorological years (2016–2024). This research aims to cha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,823 Views
21 Pages

The textile manufacturing industry is energy- and water-intensive, and has a great impact on the environment. Sustainability-oriented innovation can support the transition of the textile sector towards a circular economy. This review investigates how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,523 Views
13 Pages

Environmental Microplastics as Vectors of Non-Polar Organic Pollutants in Drinking Water

  • Sebastiano La Maestra,
  • Mirko Benvenuti,
  • Laura Gaggero,
  • Gianluca Damonte,
  • Annalisa Salis,
  • Stefano Alberti,
  • Linda Ferrea and
  • Francesco D’Agostini

Microplastics (MPs) in drinking water (DW) raise concerns about their potential impacts on health. Several substances, such as plasticizers and stabilizers, can be leached from plastic polymers following abiotic and biotic denaturation processes. Fur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,141 Views
10 Pages

Preliminary Observations on the Use of Microplastics by Aquatic Larvae of the Moth Cataclysta lemnata (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Luca Gallitelli,
  • Simona Ceschin,
  • Flaminia Mariani,
  • Loris Pietrelli and
  • Massimiliano Scalici

The interaction between freshwater biota and microplastics (MPs) has recently been described, mostly focusing on indoor experiments using fish, crustaceans, and chironomids. Among aquatic invertebrates, although having an important ecological role, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,566 Views
30 Pages

A two-dimensional longitudinal profile model was used to evaluate groundwater flow along a 48 km flowline in the Southeastern Hueco Aquifer, extending from the Diablo Plateau in Texas to the Sierra de San Ignacio in Chihuahua, Mexico. The model, inco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,790 Views
23 Pages

The Effect of Climate on Thermal Loads in Living Walls

  • Rosmina A. Bustami,
  • Simon Beecham,
  • James Hopeward,
  • Martin Belusko and
  • Ahmad A. M. Khairulzaim

This study analysed the impact of living walls on energy-efficient residential buildings in major Australian cities with varying climates. The aim was to identify and quantify the shading and evapotranspiration benefits of living walls using calibrat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,117 Views
12 Pages

Pollution Has No Borders: Microplastics in Antarctica

  • Daniela Pellegrino,
  • Daniele La Russa and
  • Laura Barberio

In recent years, microplastic pollution has become one of the major global concerns and represents a complex, multidimensional, and multisectoral reality. The considerable existing data relating to microplastic pollution in matrices such as water and...

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Environments - ISSN 2076-3298