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1. (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane and iron rice straw biochar composites for the sorption of Cr (VI) and Zn (II) using the extract of heavy metals contaminated soil

Author:
Isha Medha; Subhash Chandra; Kumar Raja Vanapalli; Biswajit Samal; Jayanta Bhattacharya; Bidus Kanti Das
Source:
Science of the total environment 2021 v.771 pp. 144764
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
adsorption; animal and human health; aqueous solutions; biochar; environment; iron; mined soils; mitosis; polluted soils; pyrolysis; rice straw; soil fertility; sorption isotherms; toxicity
Abstract:
... Heavy metals like Cr (VI), when released into the environment, pose a serious threat to animal and human health. In this study, iron and (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) biochar composites were prepared from the biochar, which was produced through the pyrolysis of rice straw at 400 and 600 °C, using the chemical processes with an aim that the doping of pristine biochar structure with the Fe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144764

2. (Climate) Change in young people's minds – From categories towards interconnections between the anthroposphere and natural sphere

Author:
Annemarie Körfgen; Lars Keller; Alina Kuthe; Anna Oberrauch; Hans Stötter
Source:
Science of the total environment 2017 v.580 pp. 178-187
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
climate; climate change; education programs; learning; society; students
Abstract:
... The grand challenges of the 21st century will increasingly require societies to reconsider the pathways taken thus far. Engagement with climate change is of ever-growing importance to young people. They will be confronted with the effects of climate change throughout their entire lives and, as future decision-makers, they will vitally shape societal developments. Education will thus play a crucial ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.127

3. (Eco)toxicological tests for assessing impacts of chemical stress to aquatic ecosystems: Facts, challenges, and future

Author:
Lara M. Schuijt; Feng-Jiao Peng; Sanne J.P. van den Berg; Milou M.L. Dingemans; Paul J. Van den Brink
Source:
Science of the total environment 2021 v.795 pp. 148776
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
aquatic environment; biomarkers; chemical analysis; ecotoxicology; fish; mammals
Abstract:
... Monitoring of chemicals in the aquatic environment by chemical analysis alone cannot completely assess and predict the effects of chemicals on aquatic species and ecosystems. This is primarily because of the increasing number of (unknown) chemical stressors and mixture effects present in the environment. In addition, the ability of ecological indices to identify underlying stressors causing negati ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148776

4. (Micro)plastics: A possible criterion for beach certification with a focus on the Blue Flag Award

Author:
Gurusamy Kutralam-Muniasamy; Fermín Pérez-Guevara; V.C. Shruti
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.803 pp. 150051
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
certification; coastal zone management; databases; decision making; environment; microplastics; outreach; pollution; tourism
Abstract:
... On the one hand, environmental certifications like the Blue Flag award (BFA) are well-known globally for its role in beach management and tourism attraction. Plastic pollution like microplastics, on the other hand, has become a global concern due to their increasing persistence and negative environmental repercussions. This paper examines and discusses the factors that would lead to (micro)plastic ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150051

5. (Mis) management of floodplain vegetation: The effect of invasive species on vegetation roughness and flood levels

Author:
Tímea Kiss; Judit Nagy; István Fehérváry; Csaba Vaszkó
Source:
Science of the total environment 2019 v.686 pp. 931-945
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
Amorpha fruticosa; Populus; ecological invasion; floodplains; floods; forest plantations; habitats; invasive species; land cover; models; pastures; plants (botany); plows; riparian forests; rivers; roughness; water flow; wetlands; Hungary
Abstract:
... Floodplains are prone to plant invasions, which increase their roughness and decrease their flood conveyance capacity. In recent decades, extremely high floods have occurred in the Tisza River (Hungary) without an increase in discharge. This could be partly explained by land cover changes, as plough fields and pastures have been replaced by forest plantations and invasive plants have become widesp ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.006

6. (Nano)plastics in the environment – Sources, fates and effects

Author:
João Pinto da Costa; Patrícia S.M. Santos; Armando C. Duarte; Teresa Rocha-Santos
Source:
Science of the total environment 2016 v.566-567 pp. 15-26
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
bioaccumulation; economic impact; environmental impact; food chain; human health; ingestion; nanoparticles; oceans; particulates; persistent organic pollutants; plastics; weathering
Abstract:
... There has been a considerable increase on research of the ecological consequences of microplastics released into the environment, but only a handful of works have focused on the nano-sized particles of polymer-based materials. Though their presence has been difficult to adequately ascertain, due to the inherent technical difficulties for isolating and quantifying them, there is an overall consensu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.041

7. (Non-)leaking of electric scooter batteries dumped for more than a year in a freshwater pond

Author:
Stefan Trapp; Marie Christine Laursen; Frieda Hammershøi Petersen
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.806 pp. 151316
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
batteries; corrosion; encapsulation; environment; freshwater; lithium; manganese; nickel; steel; toxicity; water pollution
Abstract:
... Electric scooters become popular in Western cities as new mobility option. Start-up companies rent out e-scooters in major cities, such as Paris, Cologne, Copenhagen and elsewhere. However, the scooters are frequently vandalized and thrown into surface waters. There is concern about a new kind of water pollution from leaking scooter batteries. Two scooter batteries (lithium ion type) were dumped i ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151316

8. (Tri)Butyltin biotic degradation rates and pathways in different compartments of a freshwater model ecosystem

Author:
Tessier, E.; Amouroux, D.; Morin, A.; Christian, L.; Thybaud, E.; Vindimian, E.; Donard, O.F.X.
Source:
Science of the total environment 2007 v.388 no.1-3 pp. 214-233
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
macrophytes; tributyltin oxide; sediment contamination; Lymnaea stagnalis; snails; ecosystems; environmental exposure; half life; water pollution; freshwater; metabolism; bioaccumulation; temperate zones; ionic strength; environmental fate; environmental models; Elodea canadensis; aquatic invertebrates; biodegradation; kinetics
Abstract:
... Experiments were conducted in controlled temperate freshwater ecosystems (microcosms) to determine the persistence and biogeochemical dynamic of tributyltin (TBT) and its degradation products. TBT and its derivatives were monitored simultaneously for 23 days (552 h) in sediment-water systems, with or without macroorganisms (macrophytes: Elodea canadensis and gastropods: Lymnaea stagnalis). Biphasi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.08.047

9. 1,2,3-benzotriazole adversely affects early-life stage of Oryzias latipes

Author:
Yu-Jin Shin; Bokyung Kim; Hokyun Kim; Kyungtae Kim; Kyunghwa Park; Jieun Kim; Hee-jung Kim; Pilje Kim
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.815 pp. 152846
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
Oryzias latipes; acute toxicity; developmental toxicity; exposure duration; fish; histopathology; inflammation; neoplasms; risk; subchronic toxicity; swim bladder; toxicity testing; weight gain
Abstract:
... 1,2,3-benzotriazole (BT) is used in large amounts around the world and is one of the substances derived from household chemicals that are of concern for risk when discharged to aquatic environments. Therefore, several studies have been conducted on the aquatic toxicity effects of BT, but the chronic impact assessment studies to evaluate the developmental effects on the early-life stage of fish are ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152846

10. 1,4-Dioxane as an emerging water contaminant: State of the science and evaluation of research needs

Author:
Krystal J. Godri Pollitt; Jae-Hong Kim; Jordan Peccia; Menachem Elimelech; Yawei Zhang; Georgia Charkoftaki; Brenna Hodges; Ines Zucker; Huang Huang; Nicole C. Deziel; Kara Murphy; Momoko Ishii; Caroline H. Johnson; Andrea Boissevain; Elaine O'Keefe; Paul T. Anastas; David Orlicky; David C. Thompson; Vasilis Vasiliou
Source:
Science of the total environment 2019 v.690 pp. 853-866
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
adsorption; carcinogenicity; carcinogens; chemical interactions; chronic exposure; dioxane; drinking water; environmental fate; exposure pathways; foods; groundwater; health effects assessments; health policy; human health; humans; liver; maximum contaminant level; microfiltration; physicochemical properties; remediation; solvents; uncertainty; water pollution; water supply; United States
Abstract:
... 1,4-Dioxane has historically been used to stabilize chlorinated solvents and more recently has been found as a contaminant of numerous consumer and food products. Once discharged into the environment, its physical and chemical characteristics facilitate migration in groundwater, resulting in widespread contamination of drinking water supplies. Over one-fifth of U.S. public drinking water supplies ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.443

11. 1,4-Dioxane contamination of German drinking water obtained by managed aquifer recharge systems: Distribution and main influencing factors

Author:
Ursula Karges; Diana Ott; Sabrina De Boer; Wilhelm Püttmann
Source:
Science of the total environment 2020 v.711 pp. 134783
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
aquifers; biodegradability; carcinogens; dioxane; drinking water; filtration; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; groundwater; groundwater contamination; groundwater recharge; rivers; solid phase extraction; surface water; water utilities; Germany
Abstract:
... 1,4-Dioxane, a cyclic ether that has been classified as a class 2B carcinogen by the US-EPA, is a substance of growing environmental concern because of its abundant occurrence in surface waters worldwide. Its high polarity and low biodegradability hamper its retardation in aquifer systems. Previous investigations in Germany have shown that 1,4-dioxane is already widely distributed in rivers and ca ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134783

12. 1,4-Dioxane drinking water occurrence data from the third unregulated contaminant monitoring rule

Author:
David T. Adamson; Elizabeth A. Piña; Abigail E. Cartwright; Sharon R. Rauch; R. Hunter Anderson; Thomas Mohr; John A. Connor
Source:
Science of the total environment 2017 v.596-597 pp. 236-245
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
data collection; drinking water; groundwater; groundwater contamination; models; monitoring; solvents; surface water; water supply; United States
Abstract:
... This study examined data collected from U.S. public drinking water supplies in support of the recently-completed third round of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR3) to better understand the nature and occurrence of 1,4-dioxane and the basis for establishing drinking water standards. The purpose was to evaluate whether the occurrence data for this emerging but federally-unregulated c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.085

13. 1,4-Dioxane pollution at contaminated groundwater sites in western Germany and its distribution within a TCE plume

Author:
Ursula Karges; Johannes Becker; Wilhelm Püttmann
Source:
Science of the total environment 2018 v.619-620 pp. 712-720
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
aquatic environment; aquifers; detergents; drinking water; filtrates; groundwater; landfill leachates; trichloroethylene; Germany
Abstract:
... An effective and sensitive method for the analysis of 1,4-dioxane in water has been available since 2008 (EPA 522). This method is increasingly being applied to investigate the distribution of 1,4-dioxane in the aquatic environment. However, there is a need for more information about the possible occurrence of 1,4-dioxane in groundwater in Europe in general, and in Germany in particular, where vir ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.043

14. 1-Hydroxypyrene and 3-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene as biomarkers of exposure to PAH in various environmental exposure situations

Author:
Leroyer, Ariane; Jeandel, Fanny; Maitre, Anne; Howsam, Mike; Deplanque, Dominique; Mazzuca, Muriel; Nisse, Catherine
Source:
Science of the total environment 2010 v.408 no.5 pp. 1166-1173
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
air; biomarkers; detection limit; environmental exposure; fluorescence; high performance liquid chromatography; industry; men; metabolites; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; women
Abstract:
... Objective: To evaluate the utility of urinary 3-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene (3-OH-B[a]P) as a biomarker of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in various environmental exposure scenarios alongside the more usually studied 1-hydroxypyrene (1-OH-Pyr). Methods: Two groups of 15 and 10 non smoking, healthy men and women, were exposed for approximately 6h to ambient air at two outdoor locatio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.073
PubMed:
19922977

15. 10 years long-term assessment on characterizing spatiotemporal trend and source apportionment of metal(loid)s in terrestrial soils along the west coast of South Korea

Author:
Seo Joon Yoon; Seongjin Hong; Changkeun Lee; Junghyun Lee; Taewoo Kim; Jongmin Lee; Beomgi Kim; Junsung Noh; Bong-Oh Kwon; Jong Seong Khim
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.826 pp. 154214
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
agricultural pollution; coasts; environment; fuel combustion; lakes; land use; models; risk; rivers; soil; temporal variation; transportation; South Korea
Abstract:
... Long-term trends in the spatial distributions and sources of metal(loid)s in soils adjacent to the west coastal areas of South Korea have been systematically investigated for 10 years (2010–2019). Monitoring in 17 sites clearly showed site- and region-specific distributions, being associated with land use type (significant differences, as road > agriculture > wild) (P < 0.05), rather than temporal ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154214

16. A 10-year follow-up study of yearly indoor radon measurements in homes, review of other studies and implications on lung cancer risk estimates

Author:
Sara Antignani; Gennaro Venoso; Marco Ampollini; Mario Caprio; Carmela Carpentieri; Christian Di Carlo; Barbara Caccia; Nezahat Hunter; Francesco Bochicchio
Source:
Science of the total environment 2021 v.762 pp. 144150
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
environment; epidemiological studies; lung neoplasms; radon; risk; risk estimate; uncertainty; Italy
Abstract:
... Uncertainty on long-term average radon concentration has a large impact on lung cancer risk assessment in epidemiological studies. The uncertainty can be estimated by year-to-year radon concentration variability, however few data are available. In Italy a study has been planned and conducted to evaluate year-to-year radon variability over several years in normally inhabited dwellings, mainly locat ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144150

17. 10Be depositional flux variation in the central Indian Ocean during the last 43 ka

Author:
Partha Sarathi Jena; Ravi Bhushan; Shivam Ajay; Nisha Bharti; A.K. Sudheer
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.802 pp. 149808
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
Holocene epoch; carbon radioisotopes; data collection; environment; half life; magnetic fields; marine sediments; sediment deposition; spectrometers; temporal variation; Indian Ocean
Abstract:
... The advent of Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) enhanced the application of meteoric ¹⁰Be (half-life of 1.39 Ma) as a tracer for understanding earth surface processes on thousand to million-year time scales. However, for the majority of applications, an adequate understanding of the ¹⁰Be depositional flux is a prerequisite. A number of efforts have been made to understand both spatial and tempor ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149808

18. A 110-year pollen record of land use and land cover changes in an anthropogenic watershed landscape, eastern China: Understanding past human-environment interactions

Author:
Yawen Ge; Ke Zhang; Xiangdong Yang
Source:
Science of the total environment 2019 v.650 pp. 2906-2918
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
Anthropocene epoch; Brassicaceae; Pinus; Platanus; Quercus; Salix; Ulmus; anthropogenic activities; cluster analysis; ecological succession; ecosystem services; ferns and fern allies; forestry; historical records; lakes; land use and land cover maps; landscapes; lead; palynology; pollen; radionuclides; remote sensing; sediments; spores; surface water; terrestrial ecosystems; urbanization; vegetation cover; watersheds; wetlands; China
Abstract:
... Land use and land cover changes (LUCCs) have largely altered terrestrial ecosystems and landscapes during the Anthropocene. Reconstructing past LUCCs is necessary to better understand terrestrial ecosystem succession and human-environment interactions so that ecosystem services can be used conservatively and developed sustainably. In this paper, we reconstructed the LUCCs over the past century in ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.058

19. A 13-year study of dissolved organic carbon in rainwater of an agro-industrial region of São Paulo state (Brazil) heavily impacted by biomass burning

Author:
Daniely Godoy-Silva; Raquel F.P. Nogueira; M. Lucia A.M. Campos
Source:
Science of the total environment 2017 v.609 pp. 476-483
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
correlation; plantations; fires; wet deposition; rain; sugarcane; dissolved organic carbon; burning; biomass; fuel combustion; fossil fuels; Brazil
Abstract:
... This work presents the first comprehensive study of DOC in rainwater in a tropical agro-industrial region in central São Paulo State. The DOC concentrations ranged from 15 to 4992μmolCL⁻¹, with an overall volume weighted mean (VWM) of 288±17μmolCL⁻¹ (n=881). The number of fire spots accumulated within each year of this study was positively correlated to the VWM concentration of DOC in rainwater. D ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.145

20. 137Cs contamination over Transylvania region (Romania) after Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Author:
R.Cs Begy; H. Simon; D. Vasilache; Sz. Kelemen; C. Cosma
Source:
Science of the total environment 2017 v.599-600 pp. 627-636
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
cesium; hills; inventories; nuclear power; power plants; radionuclides; researchers; river deltas; soil sampling; topographic slope; Moldova; Romania
Abstract:
... Following the radionuclide releases due to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, various studies were completed by researchers all over the world in order to measure the surface contaminations by artificial radionuclides. The aim of this study was to evaluate 137Cs surface contamination and to create an inventory distribution for Transylvania region (Romania) after the Chernobyl event using γ sp ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.019