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The distribution characteristics and geological control factors of shallow high-arsenic groundwater in the Hetao Plain, Inner Mongolia, from the perspective of Late Pleistocene-Holocene depositional environments
This study analyzed the distribution characteristics and depositional environments of shallow high-arsenic groundwater in study area using 1179 groundwater samples and more than 1100 pieces of drilling data. The indicator kriging statistics and the study results of the Quaternary lithofacies paleogeography show that the study area can be divided into three high-arsenic probabilistic distribution areas, namely, the Houtao Plain (HTP), the Yellow River Channel Belt (YRCB), and the Eastern Hubao Plain (EHBP). The depositional environment of the HTP was shaped by the alluviation of the Yellow River during the Late Pleistocene-...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hengxing Zhang Yilong Zhang Lijie Wu Wenzhong Wang Xiaohan Li Source Type: research

Has green finance reform promoted green growth in Chinese industry?
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26518-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDue to their ability to generate green industrial growth, green finance policies are important both in the greening of China's industries and in the promoting of further improvements to its financial system. In this paper, reform pilot zones are used as a quasi-natural experiment with select panel data from 2007 to 2019 taken from 30 provinces in China, and used the DID method to empirically measure the impact of green finance reform on industrial GTFP and its mechanism of action. The findings demonstrate that reforming ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yichen Su Zhonghua Cheng Source Type: research

Leaching characteristics and pollution risk assessment of potentially harmful elements from coal gangue exposed to weathering for different periods of time
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26525-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo explore the leaching behavior and potential degree of pollution that can result from the backfilling of goafs with different types of coal gangue (CG), fresh CG from the Hongqi Coal Mine goaf and surface CG (weathered for 1 year) were selected as the research objects in this study. A series of leaching experiments were carried out using the Ordovician limestone karst waters of the mining areas as the soaking solution. A comparative study on the dissolution characteristics of Fe3+, Mn2+, and SO42- and on the traditiona...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Long-Qing Shi Jin-Feng Peng Dong-Jing Xu Jin-Jin Tian Tian-Hao Liu Bin-Bin Jiang Fa-Cai Zhang Source Type: research

New insights on precise regulation of pollutant distribution inside a street canyon by different vegetation planting patterns
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26370-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMixed-vegetation planting patterns are commonly seen in urban areas for specific reasons like aesthetic, cooling, and particle deposition effects of the vegetation. However, they may have a negative impact on human health by worsening the air quality inside the street canyon due to the decreased air exchange rate. From the view of precise control of pollutant concentration in the sensitive areas of people's concern in the existed street canyons, thirty-four cases with different vegetation planting patterns and pressure l...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jiaowen Shen Pengyi Cui Yuandong Huang Yiping Wu Yang Luo Chung Hyok Sin Jie Guan Source Type: research

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles based on the Raphanus sativus leaf aqueous extract and their toxicological/microbiological activities
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26499-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSilver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have several uses. Many scientists are working on producing AgNPs from plant extracts for use as biomedicines against drug-resistant bacteria and malignant cell lines. In the current study, plant-based AgNPs were synthesized using Raphanus sativus L. (RS) leaf aqua extract. Different concentrations of AgNO3 were used to optimize the synthesis process of RS-AgNPs from the aqueous leaf extract. Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron mic...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Abdulkerim Hatipo ğlu Ay şe Baran Cumali Keskin Mehmet F ırat Baran Aziz Eftekhari Sabina Omarova Dawid Janas Rovshan Khalilov Mehmet Tevfik Adican Sevgi İrtegün Kandemir Source Type: research

Catalytic performance of activated lignite chars on biomass tar cracking
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26541-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe tar problems are the major obstacle to developing the biomass pyrolysis technology. The coal chars derived from in situ pyrolysis and/or partially gasification are a promising alternative tar cracking catalyst with great industrial application potential because of its cheap and easily available characteristics. This work investigated the application of lignite chars as catalysts for biomass tar decomposition. Raw lignite char was further gasified with CO2 for 5 min (GC5) and 15 min (GC15) and used as tar cracking cat...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chongcong Li Hao Zhang Xingli Gong Yan Zhang Source Type: research

Can urban spatial structure adjustment mitigate air pollution effect of economic agglomeration? New evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region, China
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26561-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWith rapid urbanization, the economic agglomeration within cities is associated with severe air pollution. Urban spatial structure adjustment has been recognized as an effective strategy for improving air quality. However, the research on how to mitigate air pollution originating from economic agglomeration through urban spatial structure adjustment is unclear. Therefore, based on panel data for municipal cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region during 2008-2018, this study empirically tests the transmission mechan...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jing Tao Ying Wang Hashim Zameer Source Type: research

Moving towards sustainability: how do low-carbon energy, current account balance, and reserves induce environmental deterioration in the Big 3?
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26339-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPromoting financial sustainability is the focus of current state policies while addressing the concerns of environmental pollution. The alarming impacts of climate change on economies motivate us to revisit an intensive empirical study to explore the dynamic relationships of low-carbon energy, current account balance, and reserves with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the most polluted countries across the globe for the years 1981-2020. We applied the dynamic autoregressive distributive lag (D-ARDL) simulation model to ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mubeen Abdur Rehman Muhammad Umer Quddoos Muhammad Sajid Amin Ghulam Ghouse Source Type: research

Analyzing the role of green innovation and public-private partnerships in achieving sustainable development goals: a novel policy framework
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26414-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe environment's quality is the cornerstone for every country's long-term growth. Pakistan, like other countries, is embracing modern, efficient technologies to build a sustainable environment following the SDGs. In this situation, policymakers and experts have emphasized more on environmental factors. To do this, the study explores the impact of green innovation (GI), public-private partnerships in energy (PPP), energy use (EU), economic development (ED), and power prices (PP) on CO2 emissions in Pakistan from 1980 to ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Liu Ning Kashif Raza Abbasi Khadim Hussain Rafael Alvarado Muhammad Ramzan Source Type: research

Green innovation, globalization, financial development, and CO < sub > 2 < /sub > emissions: the role of governance as a moderator in South Asian countries
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26527-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe current study is designed to analyze the relationship between, environmental innovations, globalization, financial development, and CO2 emissions in the South Asian region over the period of 1996 to 2019. In this regard, the role of governance is also incorporated as a moderator along with Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The sample size includes Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The results of the robust least square show the validity of EKC in the sample countries. Environmental innova...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ayesha Naz Misbah Aslam Source Type: research

A study on the impact of road traffic noise exposure on work efficiency of housewives
This study hypothesizes a causal association between perception of traffic noise and the reduction in performance of housewives in their daily household activities. A simple mediation model was utilized for the study with traffic noise perception as the exposure variable. The sensitivity to traffic noise, annoyance caused due to traffic noise, and the effect of traffic noise on housewives were evaluated using questionnaire survey. Of the respondents, 57.33% reported high level of traffic noise perception, while 65.81% reported high annoyance due to traffic noise perception. Of the respondents, 88.69% reported higher levels...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Towseef Ahmed Gilani Mohammad Shafi Mir Mohammad Idrees Gilani Source Type: research

Unstable decoupling of CO < sub > 2 < /sub > emissions from sectoral economic growth calls for decarbonization policies based on multi-perspective accounting: a case study of Zhejiang, China
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26513-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDecoupling CO2 emissions from economic growth is an important cornerstone of a country's decarbonization policy. Existing research in this avenue has mainly focused on decoupling the production-based (PB) CO2 emissions from economic growth at the national level, while decoupling the consumption-based (CB) and income-based (IB) CO2 emissions from economic growth, especially at the sectoral level, has received less attention. Using China's Zhejiang province as a case study, we conduct one of the first studies focused on de...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Zixuan Zhang Yadong Yu Ali Kharrazi Source Type: research

Characterization of welding fume and airborne heavy metals in electronic manufacturing workshops in Hangzhou, China: implication for occupational population exposure
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26569-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOccupational exposure to contaminants created by electronic manufacturing process is not well characterized. The aim of this study was to carry out risk assessments of exposure to welding fume and airborne heavy metals (HMs) in electronic manufacturing workshops. Seventy-six air samples were collected from five sites in Hangzhou, China. In welding workshops, the most abundant contaminant found was welding fume, followed by Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd, and Cr. The concentration of Mn was positively correlated with Fe (r = 0.90...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ling Zhang Jia-Mian Yu Xiao-Yue Shan Ji Shao Hai-Peng Ye Source Type: research

Forecasting the carbon emissions in Hubei Province under the background of carbon neutrality: a novel STIRPAT extended model with ridge regression and scenario analysis
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26599-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe impact of global greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly serious, and the development of green low-carbon circular economy has become an inevitable trend for the development of all countries in the world. To achieve emission peak and carbon neutrality is the primary goal of energy conservation and emission reduction. As the core province in central China, Hubei Province is under prominent pressure of carbon emission reduction. In this paper, the future development trend of carbon emissions is analyzed, and the emiss...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Congjun Rao Qifan Huang Lin Chen Mark Goh Zhuo Hu Source Type: research

Microplastics in freshwater wild and farmed fish species of Bangladesh
This study suggests that microplastic contamination is ubiquitous and contamination is common in all of the fish species investigated, independent of their origin (wild or farmed). However, wild fish population is at a greater risk of ingesting microplastics. This study, for the first time ever, reports plastic pollution in freshwater fishes of Bangladesh from wild and farmed sources.PMID:36964475 | DOI:10.1007/s11356-023-26512-5 (Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International)
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - March 25, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nahid Sultana Rafsana Rahman Tista Muhammad Saiful Islam Mahmuda Begum Shanzida Islam M Niamul Naser Source Type: research