Inorganic arsenic, which is extensively metabolised in humans into even more toxic methylated arsenicals, is a potent carcinogen, causing tumours of the skin, lung, urinary bladder, and other organs. It also induces a number of non-cancer effects. Consumption of drinking water highly contaminated by arsenic causes serious health problems in some countries in southeastern Asia, and arsenic poses...

The back-calculation technique for evaluating the anthropogenic CO2 (CANT) input corrects total inorganic carbon for the remineralization of organic matter and the dissolution of calcium carbonate, along with subtracting the pre-industrial equilibrium total inorganic carbon. This technique is mainly dependent on the estimation of the preformed values of total alkalinity, oxygen and partial pres...

Epidemiologic and health impact studies are inhibited by the paucity of global, long-term measurements of the chemical composition of fine particulate matter. We inferred PM2.5 chemical composition at 0.1° × 0.1° spatial resolution for 2004-2008 by combining aerosol optical depth retrieved from the MODIS and MISR satellite instruments, with coincident profile and composition information from th...

Industrial wastewater contains high concentrations of inorganic salts and organic matter. This experiment studied a system for treating containing The setup consists closed-cycle humidification dehumidification filter press. Chemical was used as the treatment solution, performance tested analyzed. effectively reduced chemical oxygen demand (COD), electric conductivity (EC), total nitrogen (TN),...

Why is the distribution of most chemicals not uniform within the ocean (Fig. 9.1)? In the absence of sources and sinks the effect of ocean circulation and mixing would be to smooth the distribution of chemicals. An important reason for nonuniformity is the increase in concentration that occurs in regions of evaporation, and the reduction in concentration that occurs in regions of rainfall or ri...

The effects of natural sunlight and microbial decomposition on DOC, DON, and DOP were investigated along the salinity gradient of a temperate coastal plain estuary. The impact of sunlight-irradiated DOM on bacterial properties (bacterial abundance, production, bacterial growth efficiency [BGE]) was also followed. Surface-water light levels resulted in no detectable abiotic production of NH4 or ...

The anthropogenic inputs of Rh in the environment-together with other platinum group elements-have increased considerably during the last 20-30 years. However, thermodynamics and kinetics on the interaction of Rh with natural organic and inorganic ligands are still poorly characterized. Here, we report the time-dependent speciation of rhodium chlorides spiked to model freshwater with and withou...

Over the next century, near-surface permafrost across the circumpolar Arctic is expected to degrade significantly, particularly for land areas south of 70°N. This is likely to cause widespread impacts on arctic hydrology, ecology, and trace gas emissions. Here, we present a review of recent studies investigating linkages between permafrost dynamics and river biogeochemistry in the Arctic, inclu...

We compare the nature of copepod outfluxes of nonliving matter, the factors controlling their rate and their fate, and finally their role, particularly their relative importance in the carbon and nitrogen cycle. Copepods release dissolved matter through excretion and respiration and particulate matter through production of faecal pellets, carcasses, moults, and dead eggs. Excretion liberates se...