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Volatile and Semivolatile Organic Compounds Determination in Air
(Elsevier, 2016)
The Quality of Air discusses the topic from both the environmental and human health points-of-view. As today´s policymakers, academic, government, industrial researchers, and the general public are all concerned about air ...
Effects of Air Pollution in Leaves of Urban Trees
(Studium Press LLC, 2017)
Urban air pollution is a major environmental concern, particularly inindustrialized cities. Air contamination affects the life quality of inhabitantsand animals of these cities and also the biology of plant species. The ...
Organic pollutants in the Suquía river basin
(Springer Verlag Berlín, 2018)
Organic pollutants have been detected in water, sediment, suspended particulate matter (SPM) and biota of the Suquía River Basin. It has been observed that the presence of these pollutants is closely related to the anthropic ...
Pollution in Coastal Areas: An Integrated Perspective in Environmental Risk Studies
(Nova Science Publishers, 2017)
Transitional water systems such as estuaries and subestuaries are areas of greatconcern in ecotoxicology due to urban and industrial settlement, being key areas ofproductivity and biogeochemical exchange between ocean and ...
Marine Mammals and Ocean Pollution
(Vazquez Mazzini, 2005)
Marine mammals are a biological group to bring a great information abour the levels of contaminants as a top predators of marine environment. Each species has a characteristic geographical distribution, trophic and ecological ...
Assessment of persistent organic pollutant in the atmosphere of Latin America
(American Chemical Society, 2014)
The widespread use and distribution of pesticides, industrial and urban chemicals and their consequent release into the environment is of great worldwide relevance. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are stable organic ...
Groundwater Pollution: Sources, Mechanisms, and Prevention
(Elsevier, 2018)
Groundwater pollution, caused or induced by human activities, is a phenomenon that has occurred since the earliest Holocene, about 10,000 years ago, when mankind became sedentary and began to settle villages and farm the ...
Alginate Loaded Montmorillonite beads: Adsorption of cationic pollutants
(Nova Science Publishers, 2021)
This chapter presents the synthesis, characterization, and optimization of alginate beads loaded with different amounts of montmorillonite (0, 5, 30, and 70%). Besides, their application as adsorbent material for the ...
Bioindicators of Pollution in Marine Environments
(Nova Science Publishers, 2020)
World marine ecosystems are constantly impacted by anthropogenic activities, accumulating pollutants from the tropics to the poles. Physical, chemical, and biological stressors produced by industrial processes, intensive ...
Metabolic profiling of biofluids in fish for identifying biomarkers of exposure and effects for assessing aquatic pollution
(Elsevier, 2020)
The development of OMICs technologies has enabled the possibility of assessing a massive amount of data from the transcriptome, proteome, and/or metabolome, in response to the exposure to environmental pollutants. These ...