Could soil microplastic pollution exacerbate climate change? A meta-analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118945. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118945. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMicroplastics pollution and climate change are primarily investigated in isolation, despite their joint threat to the environment. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are emitted during: the production of plastic and rubber, the use and degradation of plastic, and after contamination of environment. This is the first meta-analysis to assess underlying causal relationships and the influence of likely mediators. We included 60 peer-reviewed empirical studies; estimating GHGs emissions effect size and global warming potential (GWP), accordin...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shahid Iqbal Jianchu Xu Muhammad Saleem Arif Awais Shakoor Fiona R Worthy Gui Heng Sehroon Khan Dengpan Bu Sadia Nader Sailesh Ranjitkar Source Type: research
Cefixime loaded bare and functionalized halloysite nanocarriers and their biomedical applications
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118927. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118927. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEffective drug delivery for is the foremost requirement for the complete recovery of the disease. Nanomedicine and nanoengineering has provided so many spaces and ideas for the drug delivery design, whether controlled, targeted, or sustained. Different types of nanocarriers or nanoparticles are aggressively designed for the drug delivery applications. Clay minerals are identified as a one of the potential nanocarrier for the drug delivery. Owing to their biocompatibility and very low cytotoxicity, clay minerals showing effecti...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Deepak Verma Manunya Okhawilai Karthik Subramani Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran Pornappa Kasemsiri Hiroshi Uyama Source Type: research
Recent advances in catalyst design, performance, and challenges of metal-heteroatom-co-doped biochar as peroxymonosulfate activator for environmental remediation
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118919. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118919. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe escalation of global water pollution due to emerging pollutants has gained significant attention. To address this issue, catalytic peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation technology has emerged as a promising treatment approach for effectively decontaminating a wide range of pollutants. Recently, modified biochar has become an increasingly attractive as PMS activator. Metal-heteroatom-co-doped biochar (MH-BC) has emerged as a promising catalyst that can provide enhanced performance over heteroatom-doped and metal-doped biochar ...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ganapaty Manickavasagam Chao He Kun-Yi Andrew Lin Mardiana Saaid Wen-Da Oh Source Type: research
The impact of prenatal mercury on neurobehavioral functioning longitudinally assessed from a young age to pre-adolescence in a Spanish birth cohort
CONCLUSION: Despite elevated prenatal THg exposure, no association was found with children's behavioural functioning assessed from early childhood to pre-adolescence. The nutrients in fish could offset the potential neurotoxic impact of Hg. Further birth cohort studies with longitudinal data are warranted.PMID:38631469 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118954 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Blanca Sarzo Ferran Ballester Raquel Soler-Blasco Jordi Sunyer Maria-Jose Lopez-Espinosa Jesus Ibarluzea Manuel Lozano Jordi Julvez Gorka Iriarte Mikel Subiza-Perez Ll úcia González-Safont Ana Fern ández-Somoano Jorge Vallejo-Ortega M ònica Guxens Uli Source Type: research
Ecological and health risk assessments of heavy metals and their accumulation in a peanut-soil system
This study evaluated the potential ecological and health risks of heavy metals (Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn, Ni, and As) and their accumulation in a peanut-soil system based on 34 soil and peanut kernel paired samples across China. Soil As and Cd posed the greatest pollution risk with 47.1% and 17.6% of soil samples exceeding the risk screen levels, respectively, with 26.5% and 20.6% of the soil sites at relatively strong potential ecological risk level, respectively, and with the geo-accumulation levels at several soil sites in the uncontaminated to moderately contaminated categories. About 35.29% and 2.94% of soil sites were mode...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiaoqing Zhang Huanhuan Liu Xin Li Zhaowei Zhang Zhihua Chen Dajun Ren Shuqin Zhang Source Type: research
Characteristic and mechanism of biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal facilitated by biogenic manganese oxides (BioMnOx) at various concentrations of Mn(II)
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118943. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118943. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBiogenic manganese oxides (BioMnOx) have attracted considerable attention as active oxidants, adsorbents, and catalysts. However, characteristics and mechanisms of nitrification-denitrification in biological redox reactions mediated by different concentrations of BioMnOx are still unclear. Fate of nutrients (e.g., NH4+-N, TP, NO3--N) and COD were investigated through different concentrations of BioMnOx produced by Mn(II) in the moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). 34% and 89.2%, 37.8% and 89.8%, 57.3% and 88.9%, and 62.1% and 90...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ying Cao Sicheng Shao Zhiqing Ye Chunxiao Wang Dandan Pan Xiangwei Wu Source Type: research
Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soils Polluted by Chemical and Technogenic Ways with Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metals
This study focused on assessing the prevalence and distribution of antibiotic-resistance genes in polluted soil ecosystems impacted by industrial enterprises in southern Russia. Metagenomic analysis was conducted on soil samples collected from polluted sites using various approaches, and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistance genes was investigated. The results revealed that efflux-encoding pump sequences were the most widely represented group of genes, while genes whose products replaced antibiotic targets were less represented. The level of soil contamination increased, and there was an increase in the total number of a...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ming Hung Wong Tatiana Minkina Nikita Vasilchenko Svetlana Sushkova Yanina Delegan Anuj Ranjan Pallavi Saxena Sarieh Tarigholizadeh Tamara Dudnikova Andrey Barbashev Aleksey Maksimov Alexandr Faenson R ıdvan Kızılkaya Source Type: research
Metabolomic reveals the responses of sludge properties and microbial communities to high nitrite stress in denitrifying phosphorus removal systems
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118924. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118924. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNitrite, as an electron acceptor, plays a good role in denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR); however, high nitrite concentration has adverse affects on sludge performance. We investigated the precise mechanisms of responses of sludge to high nitrite stress, including surface characteristics, intracellular and extracellular components, microbial and metabolic responses. When the nitrite stress reached 90 mg/L, the sludge settling performance was improved, but the activated sludge was aging. FTIR and XPS analysis revealed a sig...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Rongrong Hou Jiandong Liu Peng Yang Haijun Liu Rongfang Yuan Ying Ji Hongfei Zhao Zhongbing Chen Beihai Zhou Huilun Chen Source Type: research
Correlation between the development of phage resistance and the original antibiotic resistance of host bacteria under the co-exposure of antibiotic and bacteriophage
This study explores phage resistance development in hosts with different antibiotic resistance and helps to understand the limitations and possible solutions of phage-based technologies.PMID:38631474 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118921 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Lingli Li Mengya Zhou Ming Yu Xu Ren Linzhi Li Chunjun Shen Chunping Deng Yucheng Liu Bing Yang Source Type: research
Adding carbon sources to the substrates enhances Cr and Ni removal and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions in constructed wetlands
This study investigated the impact of adding peat, humic acid, and biochar into the substrates of constructed wetlands and focused on Cr, and Ni removal, greenhouse gas emissions, and microbial communities in constructed wetlands. Biochar addition treatment achieved the highest removal efficiencies for total Cr (99.96%), Cr (VI) (100%), and total Ni (91.04%). Humic acid and biochar addition both significantly increased the heavy metal content in wetland plant Leersia hexandra and substrates of constructed wetlands. Further analysis of microbial community proportions by high-throughput sequencing revealed that biochar and h...
Source: Environmental Research - April 16, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hongxu Chen Bo Gao Yuehong Guo Qiankui Yu Maosheng Hu Xingfeng Zhang Source Type: research
Adding carbon sources to the substrates enhances Cr and Ni removal and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions in constructed wetlands
This study investigated the impact of adding peat, humic acid, and biochar into the substrates of constructed wetlands and focused on Cr, and Ni removal, greenhouse gas emissions, and microbial communities in constructed wetlands. Biochar addition treatment achieved the highest removal efficiencies for total Cr (99.96%), Cr (VI) (100%), and total Ni (91.04%). Humic acid and biochar addition both significantly increased the heavy metal content in wetland plant Leersia hexandra and substrates of constructed wetlands. Further analysis of microbial community proportions by high-throughput sequencing revealed that biochar and h...
Source: Environmental Research - April 16, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hongxu Chen Bo Gao Yuehong Guo Qiankui Yu Maosheng Hu Xingfeng Zhang Source Type: research
Bioremediation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol by extracellular enzymes of white rot fungi immobilized with sodium alginate/hydroxyapatite/chitosan microspheres
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 13:118937. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118937. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHydroxyapatite, a calcium phosphate biomass material known for its excellent biocompatibility, holds promising applications in water, soil, and air treatment. Sodium alginate/hydroxyapatite/chitosan (SA-HA-CS) microspheres were synthesized by cross-linking sodium alginate with calcium chloride. These microspheres were carriers for immobilizing extracellular crude enzymes from white rot fungi through adsorption, facilitating the degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) in water and soil. At 50 oC, the immobilized enzyme...
Source: Environmental Research - April 15, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jing Wu Dawen Gao Litao Wang Xuran Du Zhou Zhang Hong Liang Source Type: research
The Role of European Politics in Steering Urban Environmental Health Policies
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 13:118929. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118929. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38621628 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118929 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 15, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Zaheer Allam Mark Nieuwenhuijsen Zarrin Allam Source Type: research
Hyperaccumulator extracts promoting the phytoremediation of rare earth elements (REEs) by Phytolacca americana: role of active microbial community in rhizosphere hotspots
In conclusion, stem-derived hyperaccumulator extract is excellent in stimulating REEs phytoremediation with P. americana by improving hotspots microbial activities and form a healthy rhizosphere microenvironment.PMID:38621629 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118939 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 15, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shengpeng Yan Shengwen Xu Shihan Lei Yuan Gao Keyi Chen Xiaoyu Shi Yingying Guo Nataliya Bilyera Ming Yuan Huaiying Yao Source Type: research
Complexation mechanism of Pb < sup > 2+ < /sup > on Al-substituted hematite: A modeling study and theoretical calculation
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 13:118935. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118935. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHematite nanoparticles commonly undergoes isomorphic substitution of Al3+ in nature, while how the Al-substitution-induced morphological change, defective structure and newly generated Al-OH sites affect the adsorption behavior of hematite for contaminants remains poorly understood. Herein, the interfacial reactions between Al-substituted hematite and Pb2+ was investigated via CD-MUSIC modeling and DFT calculations. As the Al content increased from 0% to 9.4%, Al-substitution promoted the proportion of (001) facets and caused ...
Source: Environmental Research - April 15, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yu Liang Yongjin Xiang Zhiyuan Wei Marcelo Avena Juan Xiong Jingtao Hou Mingxia Wang Wenfeng Tan Source Type: research
