Per- and polyfluorinated substances in reservoir water from a metropolitan city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China, and their ecological risks
2025
Per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFASs) are synthetic chemicals with thermal and chemical stability, widely used in consumer products such as food packaging, fire-fighting foams, non-stick coatings,...
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The global research trends and hotspots on phthalate esters (PAEs): A comprehensive visualization and bibliometric analysis (2000-2023)
2025
Phthalate esters (PAEs) have garnered significant interest over the last twenty years due to their widespread presence and substantial environmental hazards. Nevertheless, absence of a complete bibliometric...
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Accumulation of thallium and potential toxic elements in a water-soil-rice system from a pyrite mining area, southern China: Source apportionment and health risk assessment
2025
Contamination of heavy metals in the arable soil around mining areas has become a hot issue of global concern, relating to food security and human health risks. This study investigates the accumulation...
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The blockage of the electron transport chains caused by PFOA isomers induced metabolic damage of Arabidopsis leaves
2025
Different metabolic damage could be caused by PFOA isomers, although the harm mechanism has not been well studied. The effects of PFOA isomers on Arabidopsis metabolism were investigated using metabolomics,...
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Nanoplastics in aquatic environments: The hidden impact of aging on fate and toxicity
2025
The increasing release of plastic waste into aquatic ecosystems has led to the widespread occurrence of secondary microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs), raising significant environmental and health...
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Disruptive technology for integrating bioremediation and biodiesel production from persistent toxic aromatic wastes using termite gut yeasts
2025
Termite gut yeasts represent a highly promising yet underexplored resource for the integrated bioremediation of aromatic wastes and biodiesel production. These yeasts possess a remarkable ability to...
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Exploring sustainable strategies for mitigating microplastic contamination in soil, water, and the food chain: A comprehensive analysis
2025
Understanding the origins, distribution, and composition of microplastics (MPs) from their primary sources such as synthetic textiles, packaging, industrial effluents and adopting appropriate mitigation...
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Characteristics and source apportionment of methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of reservoirs from the Qiantangjiang River, Wujiang River, and Pearl River
2025
Methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MePAHs) pose more toxicity and persistence than their parent compounds, yet their contamination levels in reservoir sediments remain poorly understood. We...
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Dermal bioaccessibility and health risk assessment associated with mining production of metals (Pb-Zn-Ag) and critical raw materials (Sb-W) in the Iberian Peninsula
2025
The exploitation of crucial materials for economic development, and exposure to waste enriched with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has recently increased, requiring risk assessment to protect the...
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Evidential-bio-inspired algorithms for modeling groundwater total hardness: A pioneering implementation of evidential neural network for feature selection in water resources management
2025
Accurate prediction of total hardness (TH) in groundwater is essential for ensuring its suitability for domestic, industrial, and agricultural use. Traditional methods often fail to capture the complex...
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances exposure through human milk, health risk assessment and physical growth in one-year-old children in Shandong, China
2025
Breastfeeding is an important source of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure for breastfed infants. However, compared to prenatal exposures, health effects related to postnatal exposure...
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Apportioning and modeling the anthropogenic fingerprints in a Himalayan freshwater lake over the last ∼ 3.7 ka: Insights into pollution chronology and future policy implications
2025
Lack of systematic monitoring and increasing pollution trends in Himalayan Lake sediments highlights the need for evaluating increasing anthropogenic fingerprints with advanced multi-dimensional analytical...
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Characteristics, trends and integrated health risk of five triazole fungicide in vegetables in Zhejiang Province (2021−2023)
2025
Triazole fungicides (TFs) are widely used in agriculture due to their low toxicity, high efficacy, and broad-spectrum properties. Recent studies have shown that the use of TFs can be detrimental to...
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Soil contamination and transfer dynamics of trace metals to plants and snails in a large urban dumpsite in Northwest Morocco
2025
Soil contamination by trace metals (TMs) has long been a major environmental issue, posing serious threats to ecosystems and human beings. This study aims to evaluate the contamination levels of soils,...
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Prevalence of tetrabromobisphenol A and its related compounds in an anthropogenic impacted soil-groundwater system: Concern for understudied derivatives
2025
Globally, excessive extraction along with environmental pollution pose substantial threats to both the quantity and quality of groundwater. In this study, environmental occurrence and potential risks...
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The effects of high-precision scale dispersant concentrations on microbial community and new implications for dispersant application after marine oil spills
2025
The usage of dispersant presents a difficult choice: the uncertainty of beneficial biodegradation of spilled oil against what could be a greater environmental impact from the finely dispersed oil. Here,...
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Microplastics and their role in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria as a threat for the environment
2025
Plastics and antibiotic resistance are two main global concerns, although seemingly unrelated yet interconnected threats. Microplastics (MPs) are widely present in terrestrial and marine environments...
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Weakened serum albumin binding-to-activated EGFR internalization in cellular accumulation for the synergistic toxicity of tetrabromobisphenol A and perfluorooctanoic acid
2025
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are globally concerned persistent toxic substances (PTS) with high co-exposure risks due to their coexistence in the environment...
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Chemically functionalized Eggs capsules of Sea Snail (ess) banded dye-murex for bioremediation applications
2025
among materials proposed in literature to remediate the environment, biohybrid composites at the interface between material science, chemistry and biology are the most promising. In this paper, we first...
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Consumer risks and benefits: Macro and trace elements in muscle of dominant fish species from Vrana Lake, Croatia
2025
Although fish muscles are a valuable source of protein and essential nutrients necessary for a balanced diet, the presence of environmental contaminants in fish tissue may present potential health risks....
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Still there: Persistent Organic Pollutants in fish from two Italian high-mountain lakes
2025
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) can accumulate in high-mountain lake fish due to long-range transport. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of 41 POPs included in the Stockholm Convention...
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Microplastics: An emerging environmental risk factor for gut microbiota dysbiosis and cancer development?
2025
Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants of emerging concern, as increased exposure levels pose a major threat to animals and human health. These contaminants insidiously infiltrate the environment by dispersing...
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Bisphenol A and its replacement chemicals as endocrine disruptors and obesogens
2025
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common material widely used in the plastic production and processing industry. As BPA is an environmental endocrine disruptor that causes metabolic disorders, leading to the progression...
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Methylene blue removal using zinc and magnesium oxides doped banana peels: Isotherm, kinetics and mechanism
2025
Three banana peel materials which were banana-doped ZnO beads (BZB), banana-doped MgO beads (BMB), and banana-doped ZnO + MgO beads (BZMB) for adsorbing methylene blue dye (MB) were synthesized and...
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CdS nanoparticles may disrupt nitrogen and carbon metabolism in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) through different exposure pathways
2025
Cadmium (Cd) contamination is a significant global environmental issue due to its toxic effects on plant and human health. However, the specific impacts of cadmium sulfide nanoparticles (CdS NPs) on...
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