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Using native plants to evaluate urban metal pollution and appoint emission sources in the Brazilian Steel Valley region
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33021-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn southeastern Brazil, the city of Ipatinga is inserted in the Steel Valley Metropolitan Region, which hosts the largest industrial complex for flat-steel production in Latin America, while also having one of the largest vehicle fleets in the entire country. Since potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are not emitted solely by industries, yet also by vehicular activity, the predominant emission source can be determined by evaluating the ratio between different elements, which are called technogenic tracers. We performed a b...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Guilherme Carvalho Andrade Brenda Vila Nova Santana Mirian Cilene Spasiani Rinaldi Sukarno Olavo Ferreira Ren ê Chagas da Silva Luzimar Campos da Silva Source Type: research

Analyzing spatio-temporal changes and trade-offs/synergies of gross ecosystem product based on water-energy-food nexus
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-32842-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe value of the ecosystem's ultimate goods and services for human welfare and long-term economic and social development is known as the gross ecosystem product (GEP). For the study of GEP accounting, the suggested water-energy-food (WEF) nexus offers a fresh viewpoint. This work aims to build a GEP accounting index system based on WEF, investigate its spatio-temporal evolution characteristics, and assess trade-offs and synergies between and within the water, energy, and food subsystems. Using the Three Gorges Reservoir ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jia He Lingjing Wang Chuanhao Wen Source Type: research

Tracing the land use specific impacts on groundwater quality: a chemometric, information entropy WQI and health risk assessment study
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33038-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUnderstanding the nexus of land use and water quality can potentially underline the influences within the groundwater management. The study envisages land use-specific qualitative assessment of the groundwater resources in Ghaziabad district, in western Uttar Pradesh, India. For encountering the relative impacts of land use on the groundwater quality, chemometric analysis has been employed to apportion the pollution sources. The integration of quality parameters, in the information entropy index modeling, has segregated ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shipra Tyagi Kiranmay Sarma Source Type: research

Human health risks assessment of the fluctuations in mercury levels in seafood from different key regions of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This study aimed to quantify the Hg concentration in species of mussels, fish, and crabs obtained from fishing colonies on the beaches of the west and south of the city of Rio de Janeiro, investigate the possible effect of seasonality, sex, and location sampling, and finally, the risk to consumer health in four different age groups. The difference between cooked and raw commercially available mussel samples was also verified. The main results highlight that the fish presented higher levels of Hg and that the mussel samples sold cooked presented lower levels of Hg when compared to the raw ones. For Micropogonias furnieri, S...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Paloma de Almeida Rodrigues Adriano Teixeira de Oliveira Alexandre Mendes Ramos-Filho Julia Vianna de Pinho Gustavo Lata Neves Carlos Adam Conte-Junior Source Type: research

Coconut shell-derived activated carbon-enhanced water phase change material for cold thermal energy storage
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33251-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn building cooling, the demand for cooling surges during specific times, stressing air-conditioner operation, and additional cooling is often wasted during low-demand periods. Water-phase change material (W-PCM)-based thermal energy storage (TES) allows for load shifting and effective management of peak demand by storing cooling energy when the demand is low. This stored energy can be deployed during peak hours, decreasing energy usage and associated CO2 emissions. However, the use of W-PCMs was hindered by phase separa...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Palanichamy Sundaram Anbalagan Sathishkumar Jie Liu Rajendran Prabakaran Poongavanam Ganesh Kumar Pandian Pragathi Sung Chul Kim Source Type: research

Organic contamination and multi-biomarker assessment in watersheds of the southern Brazil: an integrated approach using fish from the Astyanax genus
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33181-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe aimed to examine the responses of pollution biomarkers in feral fish from Astyanax genus collected at three hydrographic regions in southern Brazil and the capacity of these tools to differentiate between various levels of contamination. To achieve this, levels of organochlorine pesticides (liver), as well as the biomarkers AChE (muscle and brain), TBARS (liver), and EROD (liver) were assessed. Collections were conducted in four municipalities (Alegrete, Caraá, Lavras, and Santa Vitória) during 1 year, encompassing ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuri Dornelles Zebral Bruna Duarte Pereira Righi Iuri Salim Abou Anni Ana Laura Venquiaruti Escarrone Tain á Guillante Carlos Eduardo Delfino Vieira Patr ícia Gomes Costa Adalto Bianchini Source Type: research

Characteristics, source analysis, and health risk of PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > in the urban tunnel environment associated with E10 petrol usage
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33194-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe increase in the number of motor vehicles has intensified the impact of traffic sources on air quality. Our aim was to illustrate the characteristics of PM2.5 emissions from vehicles fueled with E10 (a blend of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline). A 21-day PM2.5 sampling in a fully enclosed urban tunnel and the component analysis were completed, and the characteristics, sources, and health risks of tunnel PM2.5 were studied. Moreover, the PM2.5 pH and its sensitivity were investigated by the thermodynamic model (ISORROPIA-I...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nan Jiang Zhengqing Lv Ruiqin Zhang Rencheng Zhu Guanghui Qu Source Type: research

Selective adsorption of zearalenone by a novel magnetic molecularly imprinted carbon nanomaterial
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33249-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this paper, the objective is to immobilize molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) onto the surface of magnetic carbon nanoparticles (Fe3O4@SiO2@C) to develop an effective method for the adsorption of zearalenone (ZEN). The prepared products were characterized by FT-IR, SEM, TEM, XRD, VSM, TGA, and BET. The content of zearalenone in corn samples was monitored by HPLC. The results indicate that the particle size of magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIPs) is approximately 200 nm. The adsorption mechanism of MMIPs ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: ShaoLin Deng WenYuan Tan YaLin Xiong ZhiJin Xie Jing Zhang Source Type: research

Typical antibiotic resistance genes and their association with driving factors in the coastal areas of Yangtze River Estuary
In this study, surface water samples were collected at eight sampling sites along the Yangtze River Estuary. The seasonal and spatial distribution patterns of 10 antibiotics and target genes in two major classes (sulfonamides and tetracyclines) were analyzed. The findings indicated a high prevalence of sulfonamide and tetracycline resistance genes along the Yangtze River Estuary. Kruskal-Wallis analysis revealed significant seasonal variations in the abundance of all target genes. The accumulation of antibiotic resistance genes in the coastal area of the Yangtze River Estuary can be attributed to the influence of urban ins...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Qiuhong Xu Shuguang Liu Sha Lou Junbiao Tu Xin Li Yuchen Jin Wenjun Yin Larisa Dorzhievna Radnaeva Elena Nikitina Aleksei Nikolavich Makhinov Jos é Tavares Araruna Irina Viktorovna Fedorova Source Type: research

Nonylphenol ethoxylate degradation in detergents during shelf time, a new exposure pathway, and a perspective on their substitution
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33260-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDetergents are highly produced pollutants with environmental problems like foam generation and toxic effects in biota. Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) are efficient, economical, and versatile surfactants, used in detergents for more than 40 years due to their detergency capacity. In the environment, NPE biodegrades into the metabolite nonylphenol (NP), classified as an endocrine disruptor. The identification and quantification of 4-NP in a designed detergent and 30 commercially available detergents were performed to prove...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Luis Armando Bernal-J ácome Juan Manuel Izar-Landeta Rogelio Flores-Ram írez Luis Fernando Gonz ález-Salazar Karla Ximena Vargas-Berrones Source Type: research

Urea promoted soil microbial community and reduced the residual ciprofloxacin in soil and its uptake by Chinese flowering cabbage
In conclusion, moderate urea addition significantly increased soil microbial activity and abundance, which in turn promoted the ciprofloxacin dissipation in soil and plant tissue. The present study provides an economical and operational strategy for the remediation of ciprofloxacin contaminated soils.PMID:38602632 | DOI:10.1007/s11356-024-33213-0 (Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International)
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiaolian Wu Chenze Jin Gengying Du Jianan Wang Jiayi Su Rongxuan Li Source Type: research

Effect of humic acid on visible light photocatalytic inactivation of bacteriophage f2 with electrospinning Cu-TiO < sub > 2 < /sub > nanofibers: insight into the mechanisms
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33119-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPhotocatalytic disinfection is a promising technology with low cost and high efficiency. However, most of the current studies on photocatalytic disinfection ignore the widespread presence of natural organic matter (NOM) in water bodies, so the incomplete conclusions obtained may not be applicable. Herein, this paper systematically studied the influence of humic acid (HA), one of the most important components of NOM, on the photocatalytic inactivation of bacteriophage f2 with electrospinning Cu-TiO2 nanofibers. We found t...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Rong Cheng Jin-Cheng Xia Liang-Jie Shen Zhi-Peng Shen Lei Shi Xiang Zheng Jian-Zhong Zheng Source Type: research

Unveiling the molecular networks underlying cellular impairment in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: investigating the effects of magnesium oxide nanoparticles on cell wall integrity and endoplasmic reticulum stress response
This study aimed to comprehensively investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying MgO-NP-induced cellular impairment in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a focus on cell wall integrity, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, mitochondrial function, lipid metabolism, autophagy, and epigenetic alterations. MgO-NPs were synthesized through a chemical reduction method, characterized for morphology, size distribution, and elemental composition. Concentration-dependent toxicity assays were conducted to evaluate the inhibitory effect on yeast growth, accompanied by propidium iodide (PI) staining to assess membrane damage. Int...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shraddha Chauhan Raghuvir Singh Tomar Source Type: research

How do industrial land transfer modes impact carbon emissions? An intermediation perspective based on industrial structure
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33217-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndustrial land is currently the main carrier and important source of global carbon emissions, and as the world's largest developing country, China's large-scale and diversified industrial land supply has made it the world's largest carbon emitter. Therefore, researching the impact of different supply methods of industrial land on carbon emissions and its impact paths in China can help provide a reference for other countries to reduce carbon emissions from the perspective of urban industrial land management, which is of ...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Runpeng Li Jia Li Xinhai Lu Bing Kuang Source Type: research

Pollution levels and ecological risks of PPCPs in water and sediment samples of Danjiangkou Reservoir
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-32739-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe concentrations and distribution patterns of three typical pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in water and sediment samples obtained from Danjiangkou Reservoir during two seasonal sampling periods were studied to determine their impact on water quality. The temporal and spatial variations in concentrations measured were analyzed and related to ecological risks with data obtained during the mean-flow period (in June) and the dry period (in November). We found a high detection rate of ketoprofen (KTP) in...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Haiyang Jin Chan Yu Li Lin Jinghua Cheng He Qin Jingxiang Tao Shengfei Deng Source Type: research