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Ivars Klavin?, Arta Bardule, Zane Klavina and Zane Libiete
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic contaminant that bioaccumulates in trophic chains in its organic form?methylmercury (MeHg). Hg methylation is driven by microorganisms in favourable conditions, stagnant water pools being among potential methylation hotspots. In t...
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Yuke Li, Yan Li, Hanfei Yang, Quan Hong, Guoyao Huang and Giri Kattel
As one of the world?s four Greater Bay Areas, the Guangdong?Hong Kong?Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) faces many environmental challenges along with rapid economic development, causing significant degradation of aquatic ecosystems. However, there is limited...
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Alon Davidy
Inhalational anesthesia is supplied through an assisted ventilation system. It is mostly composed of xenon or nitrous oxide, halogenated hydrocarbons (HHCs), and oxygen. In order to reduce costs of the anesthesia compounds, the remaining anesthetics pres...
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Ping Wang, Xin Chen, Gang Zeng, Zhiwei Dong, Shiyu Liu, Xianwei Zhang and Ce Wang
The performance of stabilization/solidification(S/S) monoliths is vital for the long-term effectiveness of potentially toxic-element-contaminated soil treatments, which arevulnerable to environmental conditions (e.g., strongly acidic or alkaline conditio...
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Giuseppe Genchi, Graziantonio Lauria, Alessia Catalano, Alessia Carocci and Maria Stefania Sinicropi
Arsenic intoxication represents a worldwide health problem and occurs mainly through drinking water. Arsenic, a metalloid and naturally occurring element, is one of the most abundant elements in the earth?s crust, whose toxicity depends on the reduction ...
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Elzbieta Sobiecka
Chlorine is one of the macronutrients commonly found in nature. The natural cycle of this element can be destabilized by human activities and causes negative effects in the environment. To come back into a natural balance, various biological processes of...
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Lorena da Silva Souza, Estefanía Bonnail, Julia Alves Luzzi, Augusto Cesar, Tomás A. DelValls and Camilo Dias Seabra Pereira
The increasing oceanic uptake is a direct response to the increasing atmospheric burden of CO2. Oceans are experiencing both physical and biogeochemical changes. This increase in CO2 hosts in oceans promotes changes in pH and seawater chemistry that can ...
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Jakob Windisch, Andreas Gradwohl, Beric Michael Gilbert, Quinton Marco Dos Santos, Gabriele Wallner, Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage and Franz Jirsa
The upper reaches of the Crocodile River (West) system are located in the western basin of the Witwatersrand mountain chain, an area heavily influenced by gold mining. After the spill of highly acidic and contaminated mining-influenced water into the riv...
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Katarzyna Glowacka, Jacek Olszewski, Pawel Sowinski, Barbara Kalisz and Janusz Najdzion
Cadmium (Cd) as a toxic element has a significant effect on plants. The presented study was focused on the analysis of the differences between the short- (one day) and long-time (7 and 28 days) effects of Cd (10, 50, 100 and 200 µM CdSO4) on P. sativum L...
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Lorena Basso, Paride Papadia, Lucia Rizzo, Danilo Migoni, Francesco P. Fanizzi and Stefano Piraino
Jellyfish as food represent a millennial tradition in Asia. Recently, jellyfish have also been proposed as a valuable source of protein in Western countries. To identify health risks associated with the potential human consumption of jellyfish as food, t...
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