2026 October - 56 articles
Sulfate is a soluble and chemically stable anion that cannot be destroyed, only separated, concentrated or transformed, and its removal from mine water and industrial effluents is increasingly driven by site-specific discharge limits, commonly of 250...
The abundant water resources of the Northern Ladoga region are subject to anthropogenic pressures and geogenic influences associated with the distinctive geochemistry of the bedrock. Spring water is widely used for domestic purposes, including drinki...
Aided phytostabilization—combining soil amendments with tolerant vegetation—has proven effective in improving soil properties and reducing potentially toxic elements (PTE) mobility in polluted soils, yet long-term studies are scarce. This...
Wet-weather driving is a shared environmental and occupational hazard; transportation workers’ occupational fatality rate is nearly four times the all-worker average. We quantified wet-weather crash frequency in Harris County, Texas, over 2006&...
This systematic review summarizes a 30-year body of research (1996–2025) on in-cabin noise measurement and evaluation across transport modes, including road, rail, air, hybrid and electric vehicles. Guided by the PRISMA 2020 framework, 38 inclu...
Data centers are a critical component of digital infrastructure, and their expansion in the artificial intelligence era raises concerns about environmental pressures and potential implications for human health. This systematic review and evidence map...
River water quality is increasingly threatened by organic matter, emerging contaminants, pathogens, and other pollutants, creating risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Coagulation/flocculation effectively removes suspended and colloidal cont...
Many composite vulnerability indices are developed at regional or national scales and are updated infrequently, limiting their usefulness for annual climate vulnerability assessment at the municipal level. We developed the Municipal Vulnerability Ind...
Industrial wastewater containing fluoride ions (F−) is characterized by substantial variability in composition, pH, salinity, and F− concentration, which makes it difficult to apply a single universal treatment technology. The aim of this...
Primary teachers shape early environmental understanding, yet their formal preparation in waste management remains poorly documented. This study audited all nine Greek public undergraduate primary-teacher programmes. Official study guides and course...
The transition towards a circular economy has significantly increased the use of recycled construction materials, including products intended for interior applications. While the environmental benefits of material recycling are well recognised, consi...
In hot climates, classrooms are often air-conditioned to ensure thermal comfort. However, the classrooms remain closed throughout the day to prevent the entry of hot air from outside, which leads to a rapid increase in CO2 levels. In this study, ther...
Indoor environments are the dominant setting for human exposure to respiratory viruses, yet routine molecular surveillance of indoor air remains rare outside single-site studies. Within the Horizon Europe TwinAIR project, a single harmonised workflow...
The role of fallow lands in the regional carbon balance is critical; due to the transition of soils from an arable to a fallow state, soils can turn from a carbon sink into a source. The accumulation and long-term storage of soil organic carbon (SOC)...
This study examines the spatiotemporal variability in groundwater quality at five monitoring locations in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, from 2021 to 2025, based on 40 site-period observations covering 33 physicochemical, ionic, trace metal and pestic...
This study provides enterprise-level evidence on the magnitude, source composition, and variability of operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in natural- and faux-fur enterprises in Western Macedonia, Greece. The 2025 analysis comprises nine ente...
The city of Tlaxcala, located in central Mexico, is a small region with high industrial activity that releases potentially toxic elements (PTEs) into the environment. This study investigated the concentration, distribution, contamination levels, and...
Pesticide exposure is an environmental health concern in agricultural communities, where young children are particularly vulnerable during critical developmental periods. This study evaluated a Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)-based parental interven...
The Erzgebirge, located in Germany (Saxony) and the Czech Republic (Bohemia), is of particular importance for the economic and territorial history of Central Europe, as well as for the development of mining technology and science on a global scale. A...
A new predictive model is proposed for determining the non-effective levels (NELs) of chemical substances across seven different training and validation splits. The model utilizes optimal molecular descriptors calculated from SMILES (Simplified Molec...
Municipal solid waste management remains a critical environmental and public-health challenge in Lebanon. This study evaluates the management of 1 tonne of incoming municipal solid waste from the Tripoli/Al-Fayhaa system using a SimaPro 8 model with...
Integrated life cycle assessments combining carbon, water, and energy footprints are uncommon for cane sugar production in Mexico, particularly in high-productivity regions where aging infrastructure substantially affects environmental performance. T...
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose significant threats to the contamination of drinking water and the quality of food production. In this study, the effectiveness of the simultaneous treatment of shear stress and moderate electric field (SS+MEF) for co...
The combined use of soil amendments and beneficial microorganisms represents a promising strategy to restore degraded mining soils by improving soil properties, immobilizing contaminants, and supporting plant production. A pot experiment was carried...
Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean are increasingly exposed to climate-driven thermal variability, yet long-term coral growth records remain scarce for Haiti. This study examined long-term growth variability in four massive coral colonies (Siderast...
National energy systems are routinely linked to environmental performance through a single energy measure and a single outcome, usually carbon dioxide, leaving the breadth of that relationship untested. Using a balanced panel of 120 countries observe...
Societal perceptions of air pollution may stimulate public demand for sustainable, health-protective urban policies. Yet, how social, institutional, and media processes amplify or attenuate these perceptions remains insufficiently understood. Drawing...
Real-time aerosol characterization across ultrafine, fine, and coarse particle fractions remains technically challenging, particularly in portable platforms intended for field deployment. The MiniWRAS portable wide-range aerosol spectrometer combines...
Intensive pesticide use raises concerns for environmental, human, and animal health, yet Europe-wide data on exposure remain fragmented. In this study, 224 pesticide residues were analysed in environmental and biological samples collected during the...
Urban Nature-based Solutions (NbSs) provide ecological, hydrological, cultural and wellbeing benefits; however, conventional economic appraisal often privileges monetised, short-term outcomes and overlooks a broader range of benefits. This study demo...
Industrial waste management is often framed as technology selection, although sustainability depends on prevention, material quality, residual fate, and the displacement of primary production. This purposive critical integrative review examines indus...
This study focuses on delineating the spatial boundaries of heavy metal soil contamination in populated areas. Fieldwork was conducted to collect soil samples using various sampling techniques from the Massiv 52, Novy Svet settlement and the Severnay...
Basaltic geological environments represent spatially heterogeneous regional contexts encompassing diverse mineralogical, hydrological, and geochemical characteristics. This nationwide exploratory ecological study examined whether basalt area ratio (B...
Plastic pollution poses a severe environmental challenge in marine ecosystems, which could be addressed by plastic-degrading microorganisms. In previous studies, five fungal strains of the genus Cladosporium, isolated from the marine copepod Acartia ...
Benthic communities are a fundamental component of coastal marine ecosystems, regulating energy flow, mediating trophic transfer, and supporting a wide range of ecological functions closely linked to habitat characteristics. In Marine Protected Areas...
A synthesis of current knowledge on the composition and dynamics of marine biofouling, and its role in altering the ecological setting of Southern Ocean benthic communities, is presented here. Current research on biofouling focuses on two main driver...
Regional variation in healthcare utilisation is influenced by demographic, healthcare, and environmental factors; however, the contribution of regional geological characteristics remains poorly understood. This nationwide ecological study investigate...
Forest Land Use Intensity (F-LUI) is a multidimensional and dynamic property of forest ecosystems that cannot be directly observed by Remote Sensing (RS). Existing approaches commonly quantify individual management activities, forest attributes or ec...
People encounter many environmental chemicals simultaneously, yet the combined effects of these exposures on kidney function and underlying biological pathways remain poorly understood. This study examined the joint association of a mixture of per- a...
Plastic debris in river ecosystems provides persistent surfaces for microbial colonization, forming complex plastic-associated biofilm communities known as the riverine plastisphere. Despite the growing number of studies on plastic-associated microor...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for the release of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics into aquatic environments. In the current study, we assessed the biodegradation potential of 26 pharmaceuticals (PhACs) using the OECD 3...
This study analyses how the construction sector in Catalonia is advancing towards a circular economy model through four dimensions: construction and demolition waste (CDW) recycling, Energy Saving Certificates (CAEs), passive building design and the...
The increasing pressure exerted by population growth, industrial development, resource scarcity, and climate change continues to challenge the sustainability of environmental systems worldwide [...]
Mercury pollution in aquatic systems across the United States is a major environmental health concern for both humans and wildlife. Mercury exposure causes neurological, cardiovascular, and kidney damage. Exposure can negatively impact brain developm...
Nitrogen fertilization in flooded rice systems can promote nitrate leaching and groundwater contamination, particularly where groundwater is used for human consumption. This study aimed to assess soil susceptibility to nitrate leaching toward groundw...
Heavy metal contamination of water poses serious environmental and public health risks due to its persistence, toxicity, and tendency to bioaccumulate. Developing sustainable sorbents capable of removing cadmium under realistic environmental conditio...
Avocado-processing residues can support circular biorefinery development, but optimization strategies must be evaluated with harmonized environmental and economic boundaries to avoid burden shifting. This study compares a baseline thermal-extractive...
Chlorobenzene compounds are environmentally relevant chlorinated chemicals for which efficient acute-hazard screening can complement experimental assessment. Reliable prediction of acute oral toxicity can support chemical prioritization, while conven...
The sustainable management of palm oil mill biomass is essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and promoting resource recovery. This study evaluated five palm oil mill waste management practices at a single palm oil mill (n = 1). It dev...
Electrocoagulation (EC) can reduce the organic load of greywater, but increasing treatment intensity may shift environmental burdens toward electricity use and sacrificial-electrode production. This study integrated bench-scale experiments with a scr...
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