Pollution of the environment, including water resources, is currently one of the greatest challenges due to emerging new contaminants of anthropogenic origin. Of particular concern are emerging organic pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, endocrine di...
Anthropogenic activities and industrial effluents are the major sources of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in different environments. Microbe-based remediation techniques are known to be effective, inexpensive, and environmentally safe. In this r...
Synthetic musk compounds (SMCs) are emerging contaminants frequently detected in aquatic environments due to their widespread use in personal care and household products. This study investigated the occurrence, environmental drivers, and ecological r...
Introduction: Synthetic cathinones (SC) are an emerging class of neuroactive contaminants increasingly detected in aquatic systems due to their widespread recreational use. Their continuous release at ng–µg L−1 levels is particularl...
Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Gauteng, South Africa, are inadequately designed or optimized to effectively remove microplastics (MPs), resulting in approximately 80% of wastewater being discharged into aquatic ecosystems with insuf...
The development of effective remediation strategies for aniline-contaminated sites has become a significant research focus in environmental science. This study aimed to construct a highly efficient aniline-degrading synthetic microbial consortium gui...
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This study investigates associations between house characteristics and chemical contaminants in house dust, collected under the nationally representative Canadian House Dust Study (2007–2010). Vacuum samples (<80 µm fraction) were anal...
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) pose a potential risk to human and environmental health. Microalgae bioremediation is a promising approach for transforming or removing contaminants from the environment, while contributing to the circular econ...
In this paper, we investigated the abilities of five sugar-based synthetic surfactants and biosurfactants from three different families (i.e., alkyl polyglycoside (APG), sophorolipid (SL), and rhamnolipid (RL)) to dissolve and mobilize non-aqueous ph...
Radium and barium are hazardous contaminants that frequently occur in wastewater, posing significant risks to human health and the environment. This study provides a comparative evaluation of five synthetic zeolites—3A, 4A, 5A, 13X (commercial)...
A novel self-powered system was constructed to in situ remove nitrate and Cr(VI) from synthetic groundwater and achieve river sediment remediation simultaneously. The sediment organic matter in an anodic chamber was used as a carbon source to provide...
Atrazine (ATZ) is an herbicide used for increased food production due to its weed and pesticide control capacity in different crops. However, ATZ is a chemical compound that is harmful to the environment and human health, and, unfortunately, it has b...
Contaminants can be rapidly transported at the soil surface by runoff to surface water bodies. Physically-based models (PBMs), which are based on the mathematical description of main hydrological processes, are key tools for predicting surface water...
The risk of contamination of the vital resource of water continues to increase and represents an urgent problem for modern society. Globalisation, industrialisation and technological progress have led to the need to treat more and more wastewater str...
Sanitizing hatching eggs has become increasingly recommended as a strategy to reduce infections, limit the spread of bacteria, and promote healthier conditions for developing embryos. The absence of this procedure can contribute to lower hatchability...
With the rapid advancement in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), AI-generated content (AIGC) lacking human cognitive oversight is increasingly permeating open web environments and academic communication systems. This study integrates longitu...
The presence of microplastics in aquaculture systems constitutes an environmental concern due to their potential occurrence in fish intended for human consumption. This study aimed to determine the presence, abundance, and morphological and chromatic...
The need for cost-effective adsorbents of inorganic arsenic (As(III) and As(V)) stimulates the academia to synthesize and test novel materials that can be profitably applied at large-scale in most affected areas worldwide. In this study, four differe...
This study developed a physics-informed neural network (PINN) surrogate model for a one-dimensional synthetic groundwater contaminant-transport problem with adsorption, using Crank–Nicolson numerical solutions as the reference data. The effects...
Yeast-derived biosurfactants may substitute or complement chemical surfactants as green reagents to extract petroleum hydrocarbons from contaminated soil. The effectiveness of contaminant clean-up by sophorolipids was tested on kerosene-contaminated...
Synthetic carbon-based compounds are a prevalent wastewater contaminant that can adversely impact water resources due to their potential carcinogenic and toxic effects on aquatic biota and human health. This research investigates the versatility of g...
A comparative analysis of the chemical constituents present in twenty-one commercial and two lab-distilled frankincense (Boswellia carteri) essential oils was carried out using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and chiral gas chromatograph...
The deployment of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is critical to achieve zero emissions. A key parameter influencing FCEV performance and durability is hydrogen fuel quality. The real impact of contaminants on FCEV performance is not wel...
The presence of emerging contaminants in aquatic systems and their potential effects on ecosystems have sparked the interest of the scientific community with a consequent increase in their report. Moreover, the presence of emerging contaminants in th...
Heavy metal contamination is a critical factor contributing to soil degradation and poses significant environmental threats with profound implications for ecosystems and human health. Soil amendments have become an effective strategy to address these...
Emerging contaminants (ECs), also known as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), are defined as synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals or biological agents that are not commonly monitored in the environment but have the potential to enter the...
Generative-AI systems are increasingly trained on datasets containing AI-generated content, creating recursive feedback that may cause progressive losses of tail mass, diversity, and effective variance in learned distributions–a phenomenon comm...
Canvas paintings are prone to biodeterioration due to their complex chemical composition, which can support fungal growth even under controlled conditions. This study evaluated the susceptibility of common synthetic restoration materials—Lascau...
One of the main tools in Statistical Process Control (SPC) for monitoring quality is the control chart. The Max-Half-Mchart is a Shewhart-type simultaneous multivariate control chart designed to detect shifts in both process mean and variability. How...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can still be considered point sources of contamination into receiving aquatic ecosystems, especially for many emerging contaminants, which require additional treatments for their removal. In this study, the impact...
The use of synthetic pesticides creates problems due to their toxicity, low biodegradability, and
use of them in high amounts, which can damage crops and contaminate the environment. [...]
The textile industry is one of the largest consumers of synthetic dyes and a significant source of industrial wastewater contamination. More than 7 × 105 tons of synthetic dyes are produced annually worldwide, and it is estimated that 10–...
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A number of toxic synthetic organic compounds can contaminate environmental soil through either local (e.g., industrial) or diffuse (e.g., agricultural) contamination. Increased levels of these toxic organic compounds in the environment have been ass...
Soil pollution constitutes a critical global environmental challenge driven by industrialization, intensive agriculture, urban expansion, mining, and the application of synthetic agrochemicals. This article presents seven annotated Python-based Machi...
Modern culture, strongly influenced by the growth of sectors such as the fashion and textile industries, has generated an environmental trend that is difficult to reverse. It is estimated that between 60 and 70% of the dyes used in these sectors are...
Time-series for medium spatial resolution satellite imagery are a valuable resource for environmental assessment and monitoring at regional and local scales. Sentinel-2 satellites from the European Space Agency (ESA) feature a multispectral instrumen...
Arsenic contamination in aquifers poses a significant global health risk due to its toxicity and widespread presence in groundwater used for drinking. Although several approaches for arsenic removal exist, many are either expensive or logistically di...
Ozonation has been promoted as a successful methodology for recovering effluents from wastewater treatment plants, with special emphasis on wastewater contaminated with pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs). Still, ozonation reactions may...
The joint estimation of groundwater contaminant source characteristics and hydraulic conductivity is of great significance for reactive contaminant transport models in heterogeneous subsurface media. The accurate determination of the sorption paramet...
Climate change, inadequate possessions, and land degradation all pose obstacles to modern agriculture. In the current scenario, the agriculture industry is mainly dependent on the use of chemical-based pesticides and fertilizers that impact soil heal...
Synthetic dyes, exceeding 100,000 types on the market and produced at a global scale of over 700,000 tons annually, are extensively used in the textile industry. This industry, a leading contributor to water contamination, relies on dyes like reactiv...
Synthetic food dyes represent an important category of chemical contaminants with potential phytotoxic, genotoxic, and ecotoxic effects on living organisms and natural ecosystems. The present study aimed to evaluate the physiological effects induced...
Synchronizing heterogeneous multirate sensor streams is a prerequisite for valid event-related inference, yet practical multimodal systems combine independent clocks, unequal native sampling rates, missing synchronization anchors, timestamp jitter, a...
Synthetic biology applications rely on a well-characterized set of microbial strains, with an established toolbox of molecular biology methods for their genetic manipulation. Since there are no thermophiles with such attributes, most biotechnology an...
8 March 2023
The main goal of wastewater treatment is to significantly reduce organic compounds, micronutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and heavy metals and other contaminants (pathogens, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals). In this work, the efficiency o...
The microbial contamination in food packaging has been a major concern that has paved the way to search for novel, natural anti-microbial agents, such as modified α-mangostin. In the present study, twelve synthetic analogs were obtained through semi-...
Ash from poultry feather gasification was investigated as an adsorbent for Cd removal from synthetic wastewater under a range of operational conditions: initial pH (2–8) and salinity (8–38 mS/cm) of wastewater, ash dosage (2.5–50 g/...
The present study aimed to assess and compare the ability to remediate synthetic textile and industrial wastewaters by Fenton treatment, a biological system and sequential treatments using Aspergillus niger (A. niger). All studied treatments were fou...
Resorcylic acid lactones (RALs) are fungal metabolites with known biological activity. Zeranol, a synthetic RAL, has been used as an estrogenic growth promoter in cattle; however, its use is prohibited in several countries. Zearalenone, a mycotoxin p...
In the present study, an adsorbent material for removal of organic contaminants in wastewater is synthetized by a green and facile mechanochemical method. It is composed of Ti3C2Tx MXene layers (obtained by mechanochemical etching of MAX phase with c...
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