Does diet quality moderate the long-term effects of discrete but extreme PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > exposure on respiratory symptoms? A study of the Hazelwood coalmine fire
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 27:119014. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119014. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn 2014, a fire at an open cut coalmine in regional Victoria, Australia burned for 6 weeks. Residents of the nearby town of Morwell were exposed to smoke, which included high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). We investigated whether the long-term effects of PM2.5 on respiratory health were moderated by diet quality. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of data collected 8.5 years after the mine fire from 282 residents of Morwell and 166 residents from the nearby unexposed town of Sale. Primary outcomes were respir...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Thara Govindaraju Martin Man Alice J Owen Matthew Carroll Brigitte M Borg Catherine L Smith Caroline X Gao David Brown David Poland Shantelle Allgood Jillian F Ikin Michael J Abramson Tracy A McCaffrey Tyler J Lane Source Type: research
Biohydrogen from waste feedstocks: An energy opportunity for decarbonization in developing countries
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 27:119028. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119028. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn developing economies, the decarbonization of energy sector has become a global priority for sustainable and cleaner energy system. Biohydrogen production from renewable sources of waste biomass is a good source of energy incentive that reduces the pollution. Biohydrogen has a high calorific value and emits no emissions, producing both energy security and environmental sustainability. Biohydrogen production technologies have become one of the main renewable sources of energy. The present paper entails the role of biohydrogen...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nitesh Machhirake Kumar Raja Vanapalli Sunil Kumar Bijayananda Mohanty Source Type: research
Ambient PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > exposure and rapid population aging: A double threat to public health in the Republic of Korea
This study evaluated the number of deaths attributable to long-term PM2.5 exposure in the Republic of Korea between 2020 and 2050 and identified the PM2.5 concentration required at least to maintain the current PM2.5 health burden. To calculate mortality for 2020-2050, we performed a health impact assessment using 3-year (2019-2021) average population-weighted PM2.5 concentrations, age-specific population and mortality rates. In 2020, 33,578 [95% confidence interval (CI)= 31,708-35,448] deaths were attributable to PM2.5 exposure. Projecting forward, if the 2019-2021 average PM2.5 level remains constant, mortality is projec...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Na Rae Kim Hyung Joo Lee Source Type: research
Disposal and utilization of dead animals during breeding in livestock and poultry farming by means of synthetic microbiota
This study provides a solution for the treatment of dead livestock and poultry, which has promotional and practical value.PMID:38685301 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.119010 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yue Haitao Luo Yiqian Wu Junqiang Wang Ning Wang Yanfei Chu Ziyong Xu Tong Ma Xiaoyun Huang Danyang Miao Haozhe Yang Zhengyang Source Type: research
Evaluation of historical data on persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in Lake Baikal: Implications for accumulation in marine environments
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 27:119035. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119035. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake by volume, provides drinking water and aquatic food supplies to over 2.5 million people. However, the lake has been contaminated with recalcitrant pollutants released from surrounding industrial complexes, agriculture, and natural lands, thereby increasing the risk of their bioaccumulation in fish and seals. Yet, a collective analysis of historical concentration data and their bioaccumulation potential as well as what factors drive their accumulation in fish or seals remains largely unk...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Alexandra L Polasko Vera S Koutnik Katherine Tsai Sarah Alkidim Annesh Borthakur Sanjay Mohanty Shaily Mahendra Source Type: research
Heavy metals and trace minerals in commonly available shark species from North East Arabian Sea: A human health risk perspective
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 27:118979. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118979. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShark is a seafood commodity that is a good source of minerals and accumulates heavy metals and trace elements through biomagnification, which can pose health risk if taken above the permissible limit. A study was conducted on eleven commonly landed eleven shark species (Scoliodon laticaudus, Rhizopriodon oligolinx, Sphyrna lewini (CR), Carcharhinus macloti, Carcharinus limbatus, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, Carcharhinus sorrah, Carcharinus falciformes(VU), Glaucostegus granulatus, Chiloscyllium arabicum, Loxodon macrorhinus...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ashish Kumar Jha Pankaj Kishore S Chinnadurai Sumit Kumar Verma Rajan Kumar S Sreejith K Sarika Source Type: research
Does environmental innovation have peer effects? The moderating role of slack resources and avoidance goal orientation
This study reveals the internal mechanism of the peer effect of environmental innovation and provides new management implications for managers' environmental-innovation decision-making.PMID:38688416 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.119019 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Zhongju Liao Peiyan Zheng Ping Bao Source Type: research
Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical pollutants in the Oro River Sub-basin (Colombia)
In this study, we evaluated the presence of six PPCPs in the Oro River Sub-basin (Colombia) and the environmental risk associated with them. We have verified that the monitored rivers show the presence of Ibuprofen, Cephalexin and Carbamazepine; the first ones (Ibuprofen and cephalexin) were those that presented higher concentrations since they are widely prescribed in Colombia. Pharmaceutical compound concentrations in the rivers downstream of the wastewater treatment plants from Floridablanca were higher than in other monitoring sites being a significant point source of contamination. This wastewater treatment plant rece...
Source: Environmental Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Alexandra Ceron-Vivas Gustavo Antonio Penuela Mesa Source Type: research
Cyanopeptides occurrence and diversity in a brazilian tropical reservoir: exploring relationships with water quality
This study aimed (i) to determine the dynamics of MCs and other cyanopeptides in a tropical reservoir, (ii) to investigate the correlation between peptides and potential cyanotoxin producers (iii) identifying the possible abiotic factors that influence the peptides. We analyzed, monthly, eight MC variants (MC-RR, -LA, -LF, -LR, -LW, -YR, [D-Asp3]-RR and [D-Asp3]-LR) and other peptides in 47 water samples collected monthly, all season long, from two sampling sites in a tropical eutrophic freshwater reservoir, in southeastern Brazil. The cyanopeptides were assessed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Renan Silva Arruda Fernanda Rios Jacinavicius Nat ália Pessoa Noyma Erick Drummond Davi Almeida Barreto L úcia Helena Sampaio da Silva Vera Lucia Huszar Ernani Pinto Miquel L ürling Marcelo Manzi Marinho Source Type: research
Efficiency and Mechanism of Enhanced Norfloxacin Removal Using Amorphous TiO < sub > 2 < /sub > -Modified Biochar
Environ Pollut. 2024 Apr 28:124027. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124027. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInadequate treatment of antibiotic-contaminated wastewater, including compounds such as norfloxacin (NOR), poses a substantial treat to both ecological safety and human well-being. An innovative approach was devised to address NOR pollution using amorphous TiO2 modified biochar (A-TiO2/BC) prepared via sol-gel impregnation. The resultant had a commendably specific surface area of 131.8 m2/g-1, which was 1.91 times more than the original surface area of unmodified BC. A-TiO2/BC also exhibited abundant hydroxyl and oxygen-con...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yu-Liang Hu Ying Liu Weng Fu Hong Yang Source Type: research
Determination of emission factors from a landfill through an inverse methodology: experimental determination of ambient air concentrations and use of numerical modelling
In this study, a methodology for the characterization of the emission profiles of the different sources present in landfills for emission factors determination, applying an indirect methodology, is presented. Ambient air concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3) were determined in three potentially emission sources in Can Mata landfill (Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain): dumping areas, pre-closed zone and leachate reservoir as well as in biogas, for the determination of emission factors. Multi-sorbent bed and Tenax TA tubes were used for a wide range of VOCs sampli...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: E Gallego J F Perales N Aguasca R Dom ínguez Source Type: research
Remote sensing estimation of regional PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > Based on GTWR Model -A case study of southwest China
This study used remote sensing (RS) and geographical information system (GIS) technologies and aerosol optical depth (AOD), a digital elevation model (DEM), normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), population density, and meteorological data from January to December 2018 for southwest China. PM2.5 concentrations were estimated using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), geographic weighted regression (GWR) and geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR). The results showed that: (1) Eight influencing factors showed different correlations to PM2.5 concentrations. However, the R2 values of the correlati...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Lanfang Liu Yan Liu Feng Cheng Yuanhe Yu Jinliang Wang Cheng Wang Lanping Nong Huan Deng Source Type: research
Multi- and transgenerational effects of environmental chemicals on mollusks: An underexplored experimental design in aquatic (eco)toxicological studies
Environ Pollut. 2024 Apr 27:124058. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124058. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACT(Eco)toxicological studies frequently evaluate the effects of chemicals in one life stage of organisms, but the use of these outcomes can only partially estimate populational effects. In this regard, multi- and/or transgenerational studies should be performed in order to provide information on contaminant effects in a populational functioning context. The present review aimed to summarize and critically evaluate the current knowledge regarding multi- and/or transgenerational effects of traditional and emerging environmental...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Cyntia Ayumi Yokota Harayashiki C ândido Carvalho Rodrigues Thiago Lopes Rocha Source Type: research
Arsenic exposure causes decline in sperm motility accompanied by energy metabolism disorders in mouse testes
In conclusion, As exposure causes decline in sperm motility accompanied by energy metabolism disorders in mouse testes.PMID:38685555 | DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124060 (Source: Environmental Pollution)
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiao-Yi Zhang Yi-Hao Zhang Yue-Yue Guo Yan Luo Shan-Shan Xu Xue Lu Nan-Nan Liang Hong-Yan Wu Yi-Chao Huang De-Xiang Xu Source Type: research
Understanding the toxicity risk of antibiotic emissions of aquaculture from the perspective of fluctuations concentration
Environ Pollut. 2024 Apr 27:124024. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124024. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOrganisms are generally exposed to target contaminant with stable concentrations in traditional ecotoxicological studies. However, it is difficult to truly represent the dynamics and complexity of actual aquatic pollution for risk management. Contaminants may enter nearby aquatic systems in pulsed exposure, thus resulting in that aquatic organisms will be exposed to contaminants at fluctuating concentrations. Especially during the season of summer, due to the changes in displacement or periodic emissions of veterinary antib...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Huixiang Li Weihao Zhang Huimin Yan Pan Gao Source Type: research
