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Niche partitioning and plastisphere core microbiomes in the two most plastic polluted zones of the world ocean
Plastics are offering a new niche for microorganisms colonizing their surface, the so-called “plastisphere,” in which diversity and community...
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Influence of an industrial discharge on long-term dynamics of abiotic and biotic resources in Lavaca Bay, Texas, USA
The current study seeks to identify possible anthropogenic and/or natural environmental stressors that may account for the long-term decline of...
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Global and National Instruments to Stop the Export and Dum** of Plastic Wastes
Since its inception in 1989, the Basel Convention, the only global treaty on waste and waste trade, failed to control exports of plastic wastes. This...
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Role of Microplastics in Global Warming and Climate Change: A Review
Microplastics (MPs) have become an important concern among scientists and policymakers all around the globe. Despite this, the contribution of MPs to...
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Ecotoxicological Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
Plastic pollution is a widespread environmental problem that is currently one of the most discussed issues by scientists, policymakers and society at...
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Ingestion of anthropogenic materials by yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) in natural, urban, and landfill sites along Portugal in relation to diet composition
Pollution is a global concern, increasing rapidly throughout marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and affecting many species. Urbanization enhances...
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3D Printing, a Road to Sustainable Fashion
The United Nations (UN) has endorsed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a way to achieve sustainable development (SD), and three-dimensional...
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Die Kunststoffwirtschaft
Die Kunststoffwirtschaft ist ein bedeutender Teil der deutschen und der globalen Wirtschaft. Sie umfasst, neben der Kunststoffindustrie mit den drei...
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Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystem with Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Micropollutants
The event of micropollutant occurrence in the water ecosystem from the past few decades has become a matter of solicitude. Micropollutants are the...
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A Comprehensive First Baseline for Marine Litter Characterization in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic)
Marine litter is currently worldwide distributed, and plastic is its principal component. Nevertheless, to date, little is known about how this...
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Statistically optimized sequential hydrothermal route for FeTiO3 surface modification: evaluation of hazardous cationic dyes adsorptive removal
In the present study, the performance of facile hybrid sequential chemical treatments of titanomagnetite concentrate (TC), alkaline leaching, and...
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Introducing a temporal DPSIR (tDPSIR) framework and its application to marine pollution by PET bottles
Environmental governance is highly sensitive to temporal dynamics, due to the ever-accelerating rate of technological changes, the cumulative nature...
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Environmental monitoring and benchmarking of VCM airborne emissions for a major PVC plant in Taiwan with 15 PVC plants in the USA
Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) is classified as group 1 carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research for Cancer (IARC). In 2012,...
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Bacterial communities versus anthropogenic disturbances in the Antarctic coastal marine environment
The Antarctic coastal marine environment is experiencing multiple stressors deriving from the concomitant effects of global environmental forcings...
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Characterizing the Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Runoff from Roads and Other Impervious Surfaces in a Suburban Area of Bei**g
Stormwater runoff samples were collected from five different land use sites (gas station, city road, campus, park, and residential) in a...
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Foreign investment, economic growth, and environmental degradation since the 1986 “Economic Renovation” in Vietnam
Vietnam has achieved impressive economic growth principally supported by foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last three decades. However,...
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Characterization of anthropogenic materials on yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) nests breeding in natural and urban sites along the coast of Portugal
Anthropogenic materials are a persistent pressure on ecosystems, affecting many species. Seabirds can collect these materials to construct their...
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A review on sustainable management of biomass: physicochemical modification and its application for the removal of recalcitrant pollutants—challenges, opportunities, and future directions
Adsorption is one of the most efficient methods for remediating industrial recalcitrant wastewater due to its simple design and low investment cost....
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Worldwide cases of water pollution by emerging contaminants: a review
Water contamination by emerging contaminants is increasing in the context of rising urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture production....
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Denitrification using permeable reactive barriers with organic substrate or zero-valent iron fillers: controlling mechanisms, challenges, and future perspectives
Nitrate as a diffusive agricultural contaminant has been causing substantial groundwater quality deterioration worldwide. In situ groundwater...
