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**ang-Li Li
Environment
Environmental Chemistry
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Characterization and environmental applications of soil biofilms: a review
Despite the major influence of soils on climate change, carbon sequestration, pollution remediation, and food security, soil remains a largely unexplored media with an extreme complexity of microbes, minerals,...
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The impact of corporate climate risk perception on green outward foreign direct investment
How to address climate risks and achieve green transformation has become a critical issue that businesses urgently need to consider. We apply growth option theory and prospect theory to examine the impact of c...
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Distribution, risk evaluation, and source allocation of cesium and strontium in surface soil in a mining city
Radioactive nuclides cesium (Cs) and strontium (Sr) possess long half-lives, with 135Cs at approximately 2.3 million years and 87Sr at about 49 billion years. Their persistent accumulation can result in long-last...
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Enhancing the health benefits of air quality improvement: a comparative study across diverse scenarios
In many studies, linear methods were used to calculate health benefits of air quality improvement, but the relationship between air pollutants and diseases may be complex and nonlinear. In addition, previous s...
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Nitrous oxide emissions and microbial communities variation in low dissolved oxygen and low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio anoxic–oxic wastewater treatment plant
Dissolved oxygen (DO) levels and carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio affect nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions by influencing the physiological and ecological dynamics of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities i...
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The impact of urbanization and economic growth on carbon dioxide emission in sub-Saharan African countries: a perspective from the spatial–temporal approach
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is seeing exceptional urbanization and economic expansion rates. Therefore, the STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology) parameters and the s...
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Radiation source terms analysis and classification of radioactive waste for the decommissioning of the first HWRR reactor in China
Nuclear reactors will face the problem of decommissioning at the end of their operating life due to the high radioactivity of reactor components and environmental safety considerations. The Heavy Water Researc...
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Open AccessGreen building practices to integrate renewable energy in the construction sector: a review
The building sector is significantly contributing to climate change, pollution, and energy crises, thus requiring a rapid shift to more sustainable construction practices. Here, we review the emerging practice...
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Occurrence of pentachlorophenol in surface water from the upper to lower reaches of the Yangtze River and treated water in Wuhan, China
Pentachlorophenol (PCP), a persistent organic pollutant, has been banned in many countries, but it is still used in China as a wood preservative, molluscicide, or reagent for fish-pond cleaning, which may pose...
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A comparative study of various drought indices at different timescales and over different record lengths in the arid area of northwest China
Although many drought indices have been developed to monitor drought conditions, their applicability differs across climatic regions, which results in different characteristics of drought index assessments at ...
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Sunflower-like missing-linker covalent organic framework for efficient extraction of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
As excellent crystalline materials, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are widely used in drug adsorption. In this work, a defective engineering strategy was proposed for designing and preparing the functional...
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Uncovering the world’s largest carbon sink—a profile of ocean carbon sinks research
As the world’s largest carbon sink, the oceans are essential to achieving the 1.5 °C target. Marine ecosystems play a crucial role in the “sink enhancement” process. A deeper comprehension of research trends, ...
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Scientometric analysis of electrocatalysis in wastewater treatment: today and tomorrow
Electrocatalytic methods are valuable tools for addressing water pollution and scarcity, offering effective pollutant removal and resource recovery. To investigate the current status and future trends of elect...
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g-C3N4 modified with non-precious metal Al with LSPR as an efficient visible light catalyst
The issue of water pollution has emerged as a formidable challenge, prompting a pressing need for solutions. The utilization of metal nanoparticles with surface plasmon resonance and semiconductor composite ph...
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Overview of mechanisms of Fe-based catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 at low temperature
With the increasingly stringent control of NOx emissions, NH3-SCR, one of the most effective de-NOx technologies for removing NOx, has been widely employed to eliminate NOx from automobile exhaust and industrial ...
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Role of sleep in asthenospermia induced by di (2-ethyl-hexyl) phthalate
Di (2-ethyl-hexyl) phthalate (DEHP) mainly enters the human body through the digestive tract, respiratory tract, and skin. At the same time, it has reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and s...
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Open AccessDriving carbon emission reduction in China through green finance and green innovation: an endogenous growth perspective
Discovering drivers of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is vital for the Chinese government to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutral. With this aim, a theoretical endogenous growth model capturing the mitigating e...
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Energy-saving and CO2 reduction strategies for new energy vehicles based on the integration approach of voluntary advocacy and system dynamics
The low-carbon development of new energy vehicles (NEVs) is critical to achieving the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. As such, combining gray model theory with system dynamics (SD-GM) and based ...
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Influence of China’s environmental regulation policies on corporate green innovation: a space autoregressive difference-in-differences analysis
This paper uses the data of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2019, selects a space autoregressive difference-in-difference model (SAR-DID) to research environmental regulation policies on corporate green ...
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Curcumin strengthens a spontaneous self-protective mechanism-SP1/PRDX6 pathway, against di-n-butyl phthalate-induced testicular ferroptosis damage
As one of the common plasticizers, di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) has been using in various daily consumer products worldwide. Since it is easily released from products and exists in the environment for a long tim...
