Searching, PubMed (accessed Nov. 10, 2015) for “Air pollution” and “Health” resulted in 26,156 citations. Since the 1930 Meuse Valley episode in Belgium, Donora 1948 and the London fog of December 1952, the number of studies showing adverse health effects of short and long term exposure to outdoor air pollution has grown. This review looks at historical air pollution studies to get a general ov...

Ambient concentrations of aldehydes in relation to Beijing Olympic air pollution control measures J. C. Gong, T. Zhu, M. Hu, L. W. Zhang, H. Cheng, L. Zhang, J. Tong, and J. Zhang School of Public Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ 08854, USA State Key Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Poll...

The spatial variation and distribution features of the metals tested in the surface runoff in Xikuangshan Bao Daxing miming area were analyzed by combining statistical methods with a geographic information system (GIS). The results showed that the maximum concentrations of those five kinds of the metals (Sb, Zn, Cu, Pb, and Cd) in the surface runoff of the antimony mining area were lower than t...

A modeling analysis of a heavy air pollution episode occurred in Beijing X. An, T. Zhu, Z. Wang, C. Li, and Y. Wang State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Center for Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China LAPC, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China Received: 17 July 2006 – Accepted: 2...

Spatialized N budgets in a large agricultural Mediterranean watershed: high loading and low transfer L. Lassaletta, E. Romero, G. Billen, J. Garnier, H. Garcı́a-Gómez, and J. V. Rovira Environmental Pollution & Aquatic Ecosystem Research Group, Department of Ecology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, c/ José Antonio Novais 28040 Madrid, Spain CNRS/UPMC, Sisyphe laboratory box 123, 4 place Jussi...

Soil respiration, resulting in decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC), emits CO2 to the atmosphere and increases under climate warming. However, the impact of heavy metal pollution on soil respiration in croplands is not well understood. Here we show significantly increased soil respiration and efflux of both CO2 and CH4 with a concomitant reduction in SOC storage from a metal polluted rice...

There is strong evidence that humoral and cell mediated immune responses are involved in the clearance of viruses including hepatitis virus B and C, on the other hand exposure to industrial pollutants, including heavy metals and organic chemicals, are known to cause immunosuppression. Present study was conducted to find any association between the industrial pollution and incidence of hepatitis...

Highly substituted 1,4-dihydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazole derivatives were synthesized by four-component reaction of aromatic aldehydes, malononitrile, ethyl acetoacetate and various phenylhydrazine, using nickel ferrite as a recyclable nanocatalyst by a grinding method under solvent-free and thermal conditions. The reaction has the advantages of good yields, less pollution, ease of separation of the...

We numerically investigate abundance properties of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) by adopting a new “external pollution” scenario. In this framework, GCs are assumed to originate in forming low-mass dwarfs embedded in dark matter subhalos at very high redshifts (z) and thus be chemically influenced by field AGB stars of the dwarfs during early GC formation processes. GCs within a dwarf ga...