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The SARS-CoV-2 health crisis has temporarily forced the lockdown of entire countries. This work reports the short-term effects on air quality of such unprecedented paralysis of industry and transport in different continental cities in Spain, one of the countries most affected by the virus and with the hardest confinement measures. The study takes i...
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• Relationship between air pollution, climate, and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 cases. • Modeling of COVID-19 with PM2.5, climatic, socioeconomic factors in provincial cities. • Vulnerable PM2.5 conc. identified for COVID-19 spread in provincial capital (Lahore). • Relationship of PM2.5, COVID-19 and climatic factors used to predict risky citi...
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• We review the spread of COVID-19 in wastewater under temperature effect. • We examine COVID-19 extracted from wastewater will be useful to trace the hot spots. • Lognormal distributions and Blancmange function methods to identify hot spots. • Restraint of COVID-19 extracted from sewage in nations open pits are mostly used. • Testing method are en...
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• Four oxidative stress hormones were determined in wastewater. • PGE2 and 5-iPF2α-VI can be a reliable biomarker of community oxidative anxiety. • Average mass load of isoprostanes ranged from 22.9 to 807 mg/d/1000 people. • Mass load of isoprostanes increased from the first to second month but decreased in the third month of COVID-pandemic.
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Barite (BaSO4) is a component of drilling fluids used in the oil and gas industry and may cause barium (Ba) contamination if it is spilled onto flooded soils. Under anoxic soil conditions and low redox potential, sulfate can be reduced to a more soluble form (sulfide), and Ba can be made available. To design a solution for such environmental issues...
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PerFluoroOctane Sulfonate (PFOS), is a toxic anthropogenic chemical that has been produced and gradually released into the environment for the past seven decades. An accurate audit of global PFOS contamination and contaminated sites are yet to be published. The available technologies to remediate PFOS contaminated soil are limited and often basic s...
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Nitrate (NO3-), sulfate (SO42-) and ammonium (NH4+) in airborne fine particles (PM2.5) play a vital role in the formation of heavy air pollution in northern China. In particular, the increasing contribution of NO3- to PM2.5 has attracted worldwide attention. In this study, a highly time-resolved analyzer was used to measure water-soluble inorganic ...
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Select phenols are known to possess hormone-disrupting properties, but no previous study has addressed the potential effects of prenatal exposure to phenol mixtures on fetal reproductive hormones and children's second to fourth digit (2D: 4D) ratio, a marker for in utero testosterone (T) exposure. We aimed to explore interrelations of prenatal phen...
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Even though microplastic (MP) pollution in aquatic environment is nowadays widely studied, a huge gap of knowledge exists on their actual biological effects. In this study we first reported environmental baseline data on the occurrence and characterization of floating MPs in Italian coastal waters of the Central Adriatic Sea by using a standardized ...
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