Fate of Environmental Pollutants

Determination of Environmental Pollutants

1 Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Campus Sescelades, Marcel⋅ĺı Domingo, s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain 2 State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3 Biodiversity & Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India 4Dep...

Biomarkers of Environmental Pollutants

Thousands of pollutants enter daily into environment and exert various kinds of stress on organisms and ecosystems. Risk assessment of these pollutants to organisms and ecosystems is challenging because of diversities in chemical nature and mode of toxicity of the pollutants as well as variation in sensitivities of the organisms exposed to the pollutants. Even low, relatively innocuous concentr...

Multimedia Fate and Transport of Organic Pollutants

The environmental fate of organic pollutants through the global microbial metabolism

The production of new chemicals for industrial or therapeutic applications exceeds our ability to generate experimental data on their biological fate once they are released into the environment. Typically, mixtures of organic pollutants are freed into a variety of sites inhabited by diverse microorganisms, which structure complex multispecies metabolic networks. A machine learning approach has ...

Infertility and environmental pollutants.

While it has long been known that female fertility is impaired by oestrogen exposure, it is unclear whether environmental pollutants with weak oestrogenic effects are sufficiently potent and prevalent to have biological effects in humans. Male fertility, or sperm concentration at least, appears to have deteriorated, and there is substantial spatial variation at both national and global level, a...