Some metals and metalloids in the blood of three species of shorebirds increase while foraging during two-week migratory stopover in Delaware Bay, New Jersey
We examined whether shorebirds accumulated trace elements at the Delaware Bay (New Jersey) stopover by testing the null hypothesis that there was no difference in the levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium in blood of three species of shorebirds collected early in their stopover compared to levels in blood collected about two weeks later near the end of the stopover, before departing for breeding grounds. There were significantly higher levels of all metals and metalloids in the blood of ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) later in May than earlier. There were seasonal increases in blood levels ...
Source: Environmental Research - September 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Joanna Burger Stephanie Feigin Kelly Ng Christian Jeitner Nellie Tsipoura Larry Niles Michael Gochfeld Source Type: research
Effect of greenhouse gas emissions in the life cycle of biomass energy production and conversion under different straw recycling modes
This study measures the global warming potential of biomass energy production and conversion processes under different agricultural cultivation cycle systems based on life cycle approach, accompanied by four straw treatment methods: fast pyrolysis, slow pyrolysis, flash pyrolysis and anaerobic fermentation. The demonstration of Heilongjiang Province showed that the net GHG emissions of rice and soybean over 52.39% and 101.57% higher than those of corn, respectively. The amount of standard coal saved by fast pyrolysis treatment, slow pyrolysis treatment and anaerobic fermentation treatment of straw was only 38.38%, 78.02% a...
Source: Environmental Research - September 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yan Zhou Guoqing Xu Haiyan Li Yingshan Chen Xianghui Xu Mo Li Source Type: research
Analysis of research status and trends on marine benthic dinoflagellate toxins: A bibliometric study based on web of science database and VOSviewer
This study conducts an in-depth review of contemporary research concerning these toxins, employing meticulous bibliometric analysis. Leveraging a dataset of 736 relevant literatures sourced from the Web of Science (spanning from 2000 to May 2023), our analysis delves comprehensively into the scientific discourse surrounding these toxic compounds. Employing tools such as VOSviewer, co-citation analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and cluster analysis, our study yields nuanced insights into the intricate characteristics and trajectories of the field. The co-citation analysis underscores the pivotal role played by benthic and ep...
Source: Environmental Research - September 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jing-Qian Tang Qian-Hui Shen Yao-Yao Han Yang Wu Xiang-Feng He Da-Wei Li Yong Huang Source Type: research
Bio-mitigation of organic pollutants using horseradish peroxidase as a promising biocatalytic platform for environmental sustainability
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 23:117192. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117192. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide array of environmental pollutants is often generated and released into the ecosystem from industrial and human activities. Antibiotics, phenolic compounds, hydroquinone, industrial dyes, and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) are prevalent pollutants in water matrices. To promote environmental sustainability and minimize the impact of these pollutants, it is essential to eliminate such contaminants. Although multiple methods exist for pollutant removal are available, many of them are inefficient and environmentally u...
Source: Environmental Research - September 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Muhammad Bilal Anil Kumar Singh Hafiz M N Iqbal Tak H Kim Grzegorz Boczkaj Khawlah Athmaneh Syed Salman Ashraf Source Type: research
System biology analysis to develop diagnostic biomarkers, monitoring pathological indexes, and novel therapeutic approaches for immune targeting based on maggot bioactive compounds and polyphenolic cocktails in mice with gastric cancer
In conclusion, PNC and MaLa have the potential to be considered as complementary and improving chemotherapy due to their effective compounds. Also, the introduced hub gene and lncRNA in addition to diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers can be used as druggable proteins for novel therapeutic targeting of GaCa.PMID:37742751 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2023.117168 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Elina Kaviani Fatemeh Hajibabaie Navid Abedpoor Kamran Safavi Zahra Ahmadi Azadeh Karimy Source Type: research
Rainwater harvesting for agriculture development using multi-influence factor and fuzzy overlay techniques
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117189. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117189. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRainwater harvesting (RWH) is an essential technique for enhancing agricultural development, particularly in regions facing water scarcity or unreliable rainfall patterns. Water shortage, however, is one of the key causes of low crop production especially in mountainous regions like the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where most rainwater is lost by runoff. Therefore, rainwater harvesting could be a suitable to make better use of runoff and increase crop production. The study focuses on selecting suitable rainwater harvesting site...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiangtian Aber Abid Sarwar Fakhrul Islam Abdul Majid Aqil Tariq Muhammad Ali Shazia Gulzar Muhammad Ismail Khan Muhammad Akmal Sardar Ali Muhammad Israr Ahsan Jamil Muhammad Aslam Walid Soufan Source Type: research
Insights into antibiotic cefaclor mineralization by electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton processes using a Ti/Ti < sub > 4 < /sub > O < sub > 7 < /sub > anode: Performance, mechanism, and toxic chlorate/perchlorate formation
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117185. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117185. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA comparative degradation of antibiotic cefaclor (CEC) between Ti/Ti4O7 and Ti/RuO2 anodes, in terms of degradation kinetics, mineralization efficiency, and formation of toxic chlorate (ClO3-) and perchlorate (ClO4-), was performed with electrochemical-oxidation (EO), electro-Fenton (EF), and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) processes. Besides, CEC degradation by EF with boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode was also tested. Results showed CEC decays always followed pseudo-first-order kinetics, with increasing apparent rate constants in th...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chaoran Shao Songyu Ren Yanyu Zhang Zhenjun Wen Zhongguo Zhang Aimin Wang Source Type: research
Component design optimization of green roof substrate layer based on the assessment of multifunctional performance
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117190. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117190. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA high-quality substrate layer is the cornerstone of supporting that green roofs (GRs) can become an efficient and sustainable nature-based solution to urban environmental problems. In the present study, three lightweight substrate materials commonly used in GRs of peat soil, vermiculite and pumice with four appropriate proportions of the nutrient substrate and the mineral substrates were selected to install twelve substrate modules. The lightweight property, water-holding, nutrient retention and rainwater reduction performanc...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yiming Fei Dafang Fu Chen Xu Rajendra Prasad Singh Source Type: research
Influence of respondents' Differentiation of subjective response on water knowledge stock test scale: Evaluation based on two-parameter-multidimensional IRT model
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117181. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117181. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInsufficient awareness of water issues is a crucial bottleneck restricting the sustainable utilization of water resources. To accurately measure citizens' water knowledge stock and overcome the differences between scales and respondents' characteristic levels on test results, the research focuses on developing and evaluating water knowledge stock test scales. The mechanism for identifying indicators is designed based on the grounded theory, and as a result, the water knowledge stock test indicator system is derived. The data w...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kang Tian Yunlong Ren Yuanbo Chang Zhen Chen Xue Yang Source Type: research
System biology analysis to develop diagnostic biomarkers, monitoring pathological indexes, and novel therapeutic approaches for immune targeting based on maggot bioactive compounds and polyphenolic cocktails in mice with gastric cancer
In conclusion, PNC and MaLa have the potential to be considered as complementary and improving chemotherapy due to their effective compounds. Also, the introduced hub gene and lncRNA in addition to diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers can be used as druggable proteins for novel therapeutic targeting of GaCa.PMID:37742751 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2023.117168 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Elina Kaviani Fatemeh Hajibabaie Navid Abedpoor Kamran Safavi Zahra Ahmadi Azadeh Karimy Source Type: research
Rainwater harvesting for agriculture development using multi-influence factor and fuzzy overlay techniques
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117189. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117189. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRainwater harvesting (RWH) is an essential technique for enhancing agricultural development, particularly in regions facing water scarcity or unreliable rainfall patterns. Water shortage, however, is one of the key causes of low crop production especially in mountainous regions like the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where most rainwater is lost by runoff. Therefore, rainwater harvesting could be a suitable to make better use of runoff and increase crop production. The study focuses on selecting suitable rainwater harvesting site...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiangtian Aber Abid Sarwar Fakhrul Islam Abdul Majid Aqil Tariq Muhammad Ali Shazia Gulzar Muhammad Ismail Khan Muhammad Akmal Sardar Ali Muhammad Israr Ahsan Jamil Muhammad Aslam Walid Soufan Source Type: research
Insights into antibiotic cefaclor mineralization by electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton processes using a Ti/Ti < sub > 4 < /sub > O < sub > 7 < /sub > anode: Performance, mechanism, and toxic chlorate/perchlorate formation
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117185. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117185. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA comparative degradation of antibiotic cefaclor (CEC) between Ti/Ti4O7 and Ti/RuO2 anodes, in terms of degradation kinetics, mineralization efficiency, and formation of toxic chlorate (ClO3-) and perchlorate (ClO4-), was performed with electrochemical-oxidation (EO), electro-Fenton (EF), and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) processes. Besides, CEC degradation by EF with boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode was also tested. Results showed CEC decays always followed pseudo-first-order kinetics, with increasing apparent rate constants in th...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chaoran Shao Songyu Ren Yanyu Zhang Zhenjun Wen Zhongguo Zhang Aimin Wang Source Type: research
Component design optimization of green roof substrate layer based on the assessment of multifunctional performance
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117190. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117190. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA high-quality substrate layer is the cornerstone of supporting that green roofs (GRs) can become an efficient and sustainable nature-based solution to urban environmental problems. In the present study, three lightweight substrate materials commonly used in GRs of peat soil, vermiculite and pumice with four appropriate proportions of the nutrient substrate and the mineral substrates were selected to install twelve substrate modules. The lightweight property, water-holding, nutrient retention and rainwater reduction performanc...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yiming Fei Dafang Fu Chen Xu Rajendra Prasad Singh Source Type: research
Influence of respondents' Differentiation of subjective response on water knowledge stock test scale: Evaluation based on two-parameter-multidimensional IRT model
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 22:117181. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117181. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInsufficient awareness of water issues is a crucial bottleneck restricting the sustainable utilization of water resources. To accurately measure citizens' water knowledge stock and overcome the differences between scales and respondents' characteristic levels on test results, the research focuses on developing and evaluating water knowledge stock test scales. The mechanism for identifying indicators is designed based on the grounded theory, and as a result, the water knowledge stock test indicator system is derived. The data w...
Source: Environmental Research - September 24, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kang Tian Yunlong Ren Yuanbo Chang Zhen Chen Xue Yang Source Type: research
Impacts of climate change and coastal salinization on the environmental risk of heavy metal contamination along the odisha coast, India
Environ Res. 2023 Sep 21:117175. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117175. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTClimate change-mediated rise in sea level and storm surges, along with indiscriminate exploitation of groundwater along populous coastal regions have led to seawater intrusion. Studies on groundwater salinization and heavy metal contamination trends are limited. Present study investigated the heavy metal contamination, associated risks and provided initial information on the impacts of groundwater salinization on heavy metals along the coastal plains of Odisha, India. Total 50 groundwater samples (25 each in post- and pre-mons...
Source: Environmental Research - September 23, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Soumya Kanta Nayak Janardhana Raju Nandimandalam Source Type: research
