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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Werner Brack, Damia Barcelo Culleres, Alistair B A Boxall, Hélène Budzinski, Sara Castiglioni, Adrian Covaci, Valeria Dulio, Beate I Escher, Peter Fantke, Faith Kandie, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Félix J Hernández, Klara Hilscherová, Juliane Hollender, Henner Hollert, Annika Jahnke, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Stuart J Khan, Andreas Kortenkamp, Klaus Kümmerer, Brice Lalonde, Marja H Lamoree, Yves Levi, Pablo Antonio Lara Martín, Cassiana C Montagner, Christian Mougin, Titus Msagati, Jörg Oehlmann, Leo Posthuma, Malcolm Reid, Martin Reinhard, Susan D Richardson, Pawel Rostkowski, Emma Schymanski, Flurina Schneider, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Yasuyuki Shibata, Shane Allen Snyder, Fernando Fabriz Sodré, Ivana Teodorovic, Kevin V Thomas, Gisela A Umbuzeiro, Pham Hung Viet, Karina Gin Yew-Hoong, Xiaowei Zhang, Ettore Zuccato
The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science-policy body has recently been suggested. We strongly support this initiative based on the awareness that humanity has already likely left the safe operating space within planetary boundaries for novel entities including chemical pollution. Immediate action is essential and needs to be informed by sound scientific knowledge and data compiled and critically evaluated by an overarching science-policy interface body...
2022: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carresse Gerald, Boris Deshazo, Hayden Patterson, Porché Spence
BACKGROUND: Third Fork Creek is a historically impaired urban stream that flows through the city of Durham, North Carolina. Caenorhabditis elegans ( C. elegans ) are non-parasitic, soil and aquatic dwelling nematodes that have been used frequently as a biological and ecotoxicity model. We hypothesize that exposure to Third Fork Creek surface water will inhibit the growth and chemotaxis of C. elegans . Using our ring assay model, nematodes were enticed to cross the water samples to reach a bacterial food source which allowed observation of chemotaxis...
2022: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin Xie, Xueqiong Weng, Shan Liu, Jingmin Chen, Xinrong Guo, Xinyu Gao, Qiaoyuan Fei, Guang Hao, Chunxia Jing, Liping Feng
Background: There is increasing global concern regarding the health impacts of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are emerging environmental endocrine disruptors. Results from previous epidemiological studies on the associations between PFAS exposure and sex hormone levels are inconsistent. Objective: We examined the associations between serum PFAS compounds (PFDeA, PFHxS, PFNA, PFOA, PFOS) and sex hormones, including total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT), estrogen (E), and serum hormone binding globulin (SHBG)...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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Mohammad Sarmadi, Sajjad Rahimi, Mina Rezaei, Daryoush Sanaei, Mostafa Dianatinasab
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provided an opportunity for the environment to reduce ambient pollution despite the economic, social and health disruption to the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in the air quality indexes (AQI) in industrial, densely populated and capital cities in different countries of the world before and after 2020. In this ecological study, we used AQI obtained from the free available databases such as the World Air Quality Index (WAQI)...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Urs Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi
Background: Unsustainable production practices and increased demand for fish have aggravated negative social, ecological, and environmental impacts in fisheries and aquaculture. Measures to correct bad practices have mainly been introduced by private actors. However, there is increased demand for state intervention, particularly regarding trade regulations for fish and other agricultural products. Building on discussions about product differentiation through trade measures that favour sustainable products, this study looked at how sustainable and unsustainable fish has been distinguished in Switzerland...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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REVIEW
Katarzyna Wróblewska, Byoung Ryong Jeong
Air pollution is regarded as an increasingly threatening, major environmental risk for human health. Seven million deaths are attributed to air pollution each year, 91% of which is due to particulate matter. Vegetation is a xenobiotic means of removing particulate matter. This review presents the mechanisms of PM capture by plants and factors that influence PM reduction in the atmosphere. Vegetation is ubiquitously approved as a PM removal solution in cities, taking various forms of green infrastructure. This review also refers to the effectiveness of plant exploitation in GI: trees, grasslands, green roofs, living walls, water reservoirs, and urban farming...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Walter Leal Filho, Mihaela Sima, Ayyoob Sharifi, Johannes M Luetz, Amanda Lange Salvia, Mark Mifsud, Felicia Motunrayo Olooto, Ilija Djekic, Rosley Anholon, Izabela Rampasso, Felix Kwabena Donkor, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Maris Klavins, Göran Finnveden, Martin Munashe Chari, Petra Molthan-Hill, Alexandra Mifsud, Salil K Sen, Erandathie Lokupitiya
Background: Climate change is a problem which is global in nature, and whose effects go across a wide range of disciplines. It is therefore important that this theme is taken into account as part of universities´ teaching and research programs. Methods: A three-tiered approach was used, consisting of a bibliometric analysis, an online survey and a set of case studies, which allow a profile to be built, as to how a sample of universities from 45 countries handle climate change as part of their teaching programs...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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Maria A Barceló, Marc Saez
Background: While numerous studies have assessed the effects of environmental (meteorological variables and air pollutants) and socioeconomic variables on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of them, however, have significant methodological limitations and errors that could call their results into question. Our main objective in this paper is to assess the methodological limitations in studies that evaluated the effects of environmental and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cristina Linares, Fernando Belda, José Antonio López-Bueno, M Yolanda Luna, Gerardo Sánchez-Martínez, Beatriz Hervella, Dante Culqui, Julio Díaz
Background: There are studies that analyze the role of meteorological variables on the incidence and severity of COVID-19, and others that explore the role played by air pollutants, but currently there are very few studies that analyze the impact of both effects together. This is the aim of the current study. We analyzed data corresponding to the period from February 1 to May 31, 2020 for the City of Madrid. As meteorological variables, maximum daily temperature (Tmax) in ºC and mean daily absolute humidity (AH) in g/m3 were used corresponding to the mean values recorded by all Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) observatories in the Madrid region...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hendrik Ballerstedt, Till Tiso, Nick Wierckx, Ren Wei, Luc Averous, Uwe Bornscheuer, Kevin O'Connor, Tilman Floehr, Andreas Jupke, Jürgen Klankermayer, Luo Liu, Victor de Lorenzo, Tanja Narancic, Juan Nogales, Rémi Perrin, Eric Pollet, Auxiliadora Prieto, William Casey, Thomas Haarmann, Alexandru Sarbu, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Fengxue Xin, Weiliang Dong, Jiamin Xing, Guo-Qiang Chen, Tianwei Tan, Min Jiang, Lars M Blank
This article introduces the EU Horizon 2020 research project MIX-UP, "Mixed plastics biodegradation and upcycling using microbial communities". The project focuses on changing the traditional linear value chain of plastics to a sustainable, biodegradable based one. Plastic mixtures contain five of the top six fossil-based recalcitrant plastics [polyethylene (PE), polyurethane (PUR), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS)], along with upcoming bioplastics polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and polylactate (PLA) will be used as feedstock for microbial transformations...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lea M Lovin, Sujin Kim, Raegyn B Taylor, Kendall R Scarlett, Laura M Langan, C Kevin Chambliss, Saurabh Chatterjee, J Thad Scott, Bryan W Brooks
Background: Though anatoxin-a (antx-a) is a globally important cyanobacterial neurotoxin in inland waters, information on sublethal toxicological responses of aquatic organisms is limited. We examined influences of (±) antx-a (11-3490 μg/L) on photolocomotor behavioral responses and gene transcription associated with neurotoxicity, oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity, in two of the most common alternative vertebrate and fish models, Danio rerio (zebrafish) and Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow)...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
KeunOh Choi, Seunghye Sim, Junyeong Choi, Choa Park, Yoonhee Uhm, Eunkyung Lim, Augustine Yonghwi Kim, Seong Joon Yoo, YoungJoo Lee
Background: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19, the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, handwashing, using hand sanitizer, and wearing facial masks are recommended as the first line of protection against COVID-19. Encouraging hand hygiene may be one of the most cost-effective means of reducing the global burden of disease. Methods: This study uses a web-based questionnaire to evaluate the usage patterns and consumer perceptions of the effectiveness and health safety of bar soap, liquid hand soap, and hand sanitizer products before and after the spread of COVID-19...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andre Patrick Heinrich, Timm Zöltzer, Leonard Böhm, Manuel Wohde, Sara Jaddoudi, Yassine El Maataoui, Abdelmalek Dahchour, Rolf-Alexander Düring
Background: Veterinary pharmaceuticals can enter the environment when excreted after application and burden terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, knowledge about the basic process of sorption in soils and sediments is limited, complicating regulatory decisions. Therefore, batch equilibrium studies were conducted for the widely used antiparasitics abamectin, doramectin, ivermectin, and moxidectin to add to the assessment of their environmental fate. Results: We examined 20 soil samples and six sediments from Germany and Morocco...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily Chang, Kenneth Zhang, Margaret Paczkowski, Sara Kohler, Marco Ribeiro
Background: This study seeks to answer two questions about the impacts of the 2020 Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement regulation rollbacks: is this suspension bolstering the economic viability of industries as oil and manufacturing executives claim they will and are these regulations upholding the agency's mission of protecting the environment? Results: To answer the former question, we utilized 6 months of state employment level data from California, United States, as a method of gauging the economic health of agency-regulated industries...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Johannes Haedrich, Claudia Stumpf, Michael S Denison
Background: Low maximum and action levels set by the European Union for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) in pig meat (pork) have led to a demand for reliable and cost-effective bioanalytical screening methods implemented upstream of gas chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry confirmatory technology, that can detect low levels of contamination in EU-regulated foods with quick turn-around times. Results: Based on the Chemically Activated LUciferase gene eXpression (CALUX) bioassay, extraction and clean-up steps were optimized for recovery and reproducibility within working ranges significantly lower than in current bioassays...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pierre Sicard, Evgenios Agathokleous, Alessandra De Marco, Elena Paoletti, Vicent Calatayud
Background: The paper presents an overview of air quality in the 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (previous EU-28), from 2000 to 2017. We reviewed the progress made towards meeting the air quality standards established by the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives (European Council Directive 2008/50/EC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines by estimating the trends (Mann-Kendal test) in national emissions of main air pollutants, urban population exposure to air pollution, and in mortality related to exposure to ambient fine particles (PM2...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
#37
REVIEW
Sebastian Huhn, Beate I Escher, Martin Krauss, Stefan Scholz, Jörg Hackermüller, Rolf Altenburger
Environmental factors contribute to the risk for adverse health outcomes against a background of genetic predisposition. Among these factors, chemical exposures may substantially contribute to disease risk and adverse outcomes. In fact, epidemiological cohort studies have established associations between exposure against individual chemicals and adverse health effects. Yet, in daily life individuals are exposed to complex mixtures in varying compositions. To capture the totality of environmental exposures the concept of the exposome has been developed...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhongli Chen, Jinsong Guo, Yanxue Jiang, Ying Shao
The issue of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has created enormous threat to global health. In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, a huge amount of disinfectants and antibiotics have been utilized on public health. Accordingly, the concentration of disinfectants and antibiotics is increasing rapidly in various environments, including wastewater, surface waters, soils and sediments. The aims of this study were to analyze the potential ecological environment impacts of disinfectants and antibiotics by summarizing their utilization, environmental occurrence, distribution and toxicity...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
#39
REVIEW
Cristina Palacios-Mateo, Yvonne van der Meer, Gunnar Seide
Clothing is one of the primary human needs, and the demand is met by the global production of thousands of tons of textile fibers, fabrics and garments every day. Polyester clothing manufactured from oil-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the market leader. Conventional PET creates pollution along its entire value chain-during the production, use and end-of-life phases-and also contributes to the unsustainable depletion of resources. The consumption of PET garments thus compromises the quality of land, water and air, destroys ecosystems, and endangers human health...
2021: Environmental Sciences Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Johannes Haedrich, Claudia Stumpf, Michael S Denison
Background: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as dioxins, dioxin-like chemicals and non-dioxin-like PCBs causing adverse effects to human health bio-accumulate through the food web due to their affinity for adipose tissues. Foods of animal origin are therefore the main contributors to human dietary exposure. The European Union's (EU) food safety policy requires checking of a wide range of samples for compliance with legal limits on a regular basis. Several methods of varying efficiency are applied by official control laboratories for extraction of the different classes of lipids and associated POPs, bound to animal tissue and animal products in varying degrees, sometimes leading to discrepancies especially in fresh weight based analytical results...
2020: Environmental Sciences Europe
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