Soil is a vital life supporting system of the Planet Earth. However, it has been estimated that around 25% the global soils are highly degraded and 44% are moderately degraded mainly due to the pollution of metals and ...

This study is aimed at analyzing the occurrence and transport of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the Quequen Grande ´ river basin, as ...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in the People’s Republic of China in December 2019. Thereafter, a global logarithmic expansion of cases occurred. Some countries have a higher rate of infections ...

Air pollution has been a growing worry of international medical organizations and governments due its relation with a large number of respiratory diseases, among other effects. This work proposes an open, crowdsourced, ...

The Caspian Sea hosts areas of high ecological value as well as industrial, leisure, and agricultural activities that dump into the water body different kinds of pollutants. In this complex context, a proper description ...

We report the results of a search of formal relationships between accumulation data and molecular structure for some pollutant molecules (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and polychlorinated ...

Environmental pollution is a problem affecting many cities in our planet. Santiago de Chile is one with the worst indices. Because of that, local authorities implemented a few years ago an air quality monitoring network ...

Despite being a critical environmental problem, soil pollution is not usually considered as a relevant issue by the general public. This disinterest derives from traditional procedures to assess soil pollution that are ...

In high altitude Andean streams an intense solar radiation and coinciding metal pollution allow the persistence of only a few specialized taxa, including chironomids. The aim of the present study was therefore to determine ...