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  1. Climate change, caused by both natural and human activities, poses significant threats to global health, including rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and environmental disruptions. The One Health con...

    Authors: Muhammad Shafique, Mohsin Khurshid, Saima Muzammil, Muhammad Imran Arshad, Imran Riaz Malik, Muhammad Hidayat Rasool, Aimen Khalid, Rabia Khalid, Rubab Asghar, Zulqarnain Baloch and Bilal Aslam
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:135
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  2. Authors: Asad Shah, Jing Huang, Tianfu Han, Muhammad Numan Khan, Kiya Adare Tadesse, Nano Alemu Daba, Sajeela Khan, Sami Ullah, Muhammad Fahad Sardar, Shah Fahad and Huimin Zhang
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:134
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    The original article was published in Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:120

  3. This study evaluated the source apportionment and level of contamination with potential toxic elements (PTEs)—As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn—in a riparian zone of the Sava River by calculating the Enrichment Fa...

    Authors: Milica Jonjev, Zorana Miletić, Dragana Pavlović, Marija Matić, Dragan Čakmak, Miroslava Mitrović and Pavle Pavlović
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:133
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  4. Irrigation with low-quality water without considering the acceptable levels negatively impacts not only humans, but also extends to the whole surrounding ecosystem. The current research is a comprehensive-inte...

    Authors: H. Mansour, Sayed A. Ahmed, A. Zaghloul, H. Kabary and Hossam F. Nassar
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:132
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  5. Discharge of large amounts of untreated industrial effluent into water bodies pose significant environmental challenges worldwide. This is due to the limitations of traditional wastewater treatment methods in ...

    Authors: Muhammad Yusuf Suleiman, Opeoluwa Olusola Fasanya, Abdulazeez Yusuf Atta, Fei Ye, Joydeep Dutta and Baba El-Yakubu Jibril
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:131
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  6. African countries are among the most vulnerable and affected by climate change. Comprehending climate change poses a major hurdle for the African population, politicians, and the African Union alike, presentin...

    Authors: Walter Leal Filho, Javier Sierra, Frederick Kalembo, Desalegn Y. Ayal, Newton Matandirotya, Cristina Isabel de Victoria Pereira Amaro da Costa, Baba Libasse Sow, Raymond Aabeyir, James Mawanda, Leocadia Zhou and Demba Baldeh
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:130
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  8. Adopting a multi-criteria approach in forest management is essential for preserving or improving specific benefits while minimizing negative environmental impacts. Determining the appropriate long-term managem...

    Authors: Goran Krsnik, Keith M. Reynolds, Núria Aquilué, Blas Mola-Yudego, Mireia Pecurul-Botines, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo and José Ramón González Olabarria
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:128
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  10. Water-scarce regions, like the Mediterranean, face worsening conditions due to climate change, intensifying pressure on key economic sectors such as hydropower. Additionally, environmental conservation policie...

    Authors: Xavier Garcia, Laia Estrada, Oliu Llorente and Vicenç Acuña
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:126
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  11. Air pollution is associated with adverse health effects, especially on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, but according to recent research, even in cognitive health, metabolic, and immune systems. The...

    Authors: Vítězslav Jiřík, Ondřej Machaczka, Petra Riedlová, Dagmar Kramná, Grzegorz Siemiatkowski, Leszek Ośródka, Ewa Krajny, Antonín Ambrož, Jan Topinka and Pavel Rössner
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:125
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  12. Exposure to synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides and pharmaceuticals, affects freshwater communities at broad spatial scales. This risk is commonly managed in a prospective environmental risk assessment (ER...

    Authors: Jonathan F. Jupke, Thomas Sinclair, Lorraine Maltby, Jukka Aroviita, Libuše Barešová, Núria Bonada, Emília Mišíková Elexová, M. Teresa Ferreira, Maria Lazaridou, Margita Lešťáková, Piotr Panek, Petr Pařil, Edwin T. H. M. Peeters, Marek Polášek, Leonard Sandin, Dénes Schmera…
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:124
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  13. This study aimed to investigate the associations between metal exposures and periodontitis among U.S. adults, as well as the mediated effect of biological aging.

    Authors: Zhida Dai, Yingyin Fu, Yuxuan Tan, Xinyuan Yu, Yixi Cao, Yian Xia, Chunxia Jing and Chunlei Zhang
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:123
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  14. Due to climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent worldwide. An example of such an extreme weather event was the flooding in Western Europe in July 2021. Currently, there are large resea...

    Authors: Matthias W. Kleespies, Thomas Friedrich, Oskar Marg, Carolin Völker and Sabrina Schiwy
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:122
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  15. Plastic is generating global pollution and the replacement such as bioplastic has been developed to mitigate the pollution. To this end, the fate, transformation and pathway of bioplastics need more research. ...

    Authors: Cheng Fang, Xian Zhang, Zixing Zhang and Ravi Naidu
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:121
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  16. Two potent greenhouse gases that are mostly found in agricultural soils are methane and nitrous oxide. Therefore, we investigated the effect of different moisture regimes on microbial stoichiometry, enzymatic ...

    Authors: Asad Shah, Jing Huang, Tianfu Han, Muhammad Numan Khan, Kiya Adare Tadesse, Nano Alemu Daba, Sajeela Khan, Sami Ullah, Muhammad Fahad Sardar, Shah Fahad and Huimin Zhang
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:120
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:134

  17. Floodplains are biodiversity hotspots and provide numerous ecosystem services. In recent decades, however, 70–90% of Europe’s floodplains have been structurally degraded. Accordingly, many (inter-)national pro...

    Authors: Nina Kuschik-Maczollek, Malte Glock, Markus Schmitz, Henner Hollert, Martin Krauss, Aleksandra Piotrowska, Werner Brack and Jörg Oehlmann
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:119
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  18. Biodiversity is declining worldwide as ecosystems are increasingly threatened by multiple stressors associated with anthropogenic global change. Stressors frequently co-occur across scales spatially and tempor...

    Authors: Lucas Streib, Jurg W. Spaak, Marius Kloft and Ralf B. Schäfer
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:118
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  19. Chemical pollution resulting from pesticide usage has been a continuous issue since the 1960s, despite comprehensive European Union legislation designed to safeguard human health and the environment from the a...

    Authors: Željka Lončarić, Carina Lackmann, Dora Bjedov, Antonio Šimić, Sandra Ečimović, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler, Henner Hollert and Mirna Velki
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:117
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  20. Conventional munition dumped into the North Sea and the Baltic Sea close to the German coastline is corroding. A major concern is that biota, including fish, are negatively affected by toxic explosives leaking...

    Authors: Ulrike Kammann, Verena Töpker, Nicole Schmidt, Marcellus Rödiger, Marc-Oliver Aust, Michael Gabel and Jörn Peter Scharsack
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:116
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  21. Overuse of pesticides is a major worldwide problem for the environment and human health. Atrazine (ATR) is a synthetic triazine herbicide that is typically used to manage crops and although it was banned many ...

    Authors: Elvira De Rosa, Paolo Montuori, Fabiana Di Duca, Bruna De Simone, Stefano Scippa, Raffaele Nubi, Donatella Paola Provvisiero, Immacolata Russo and Maria Triassi
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:115
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  22. The agricultural sector faces challenges in managing water resources efficiently, particularly in arid regions dealing with water scarcity. To overcome water stress, treated wastewater (TWW) is increasingly ut...

    Authors: Syed Muzzamil Hussain Shah, Sani I. Abba, Mohamed A. Yassin, Dahiru U. Lawal, Farouq Aliyu, Ebrahim Hamid Hussein Al-Qadami, Haris U. Qureshi, Isam H. Aljundi, Hamza A. Asmaly, Saad Sh. Sammen and Miklas Scholz
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:114
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  23. Prioritisation of chemical pollutants is a major challenge for environmental managers and decision-makers alike, which is essential to help focus the limited resources available for monitoring and mitigation a...

    Authors: Valeria Dulio, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Kelsey Ng, Emma L. Schymanski, Sandrine Andres, Katrin Vorkamp, Juliane Hollender, Saskia Finckh, Reza Aalizadeh, Lutz Ahrens, Elodie Bouhoulle, Ľuboš Čirka, Anja Derksen, Geneviève Deviller, Anja Duffek, Mar Esperanza…
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:113
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  24. The sustainability of plastic materials and products requires the continuous improvement of the circular pathways for the material. A key strategy in the circularity of plastic is plastic recycling. Improving ...

    Authors: Kunle Ibukun Olatayo, Paul T. Mativenga and Annlizé L. Marnewick
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:112
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  25. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetic compounds, many of which are persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT). The sheer number of PFAS makes a substance-by-substance based approach...

    Authors: Ellise Suffill, Mathew P. White, Sarah Hale and Sabine Pahl
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:111
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  26. The European flood that occurred between July 13th and 16th 2021, was a natural disaster that caused significant damage in Central European countries, including Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. T...

    Authors: Piero Bellanova, Jan Schwarzbauer and Klaus Reicherter
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:110
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  28. Recognizing nature and the environment as sociocultural constructions is critical to enhancing a transformational ecological change. This involves understanding their diverse sociocultural meanings and societa...

    Authors: Diogo Guedes Vidal, Fátima Alves, Cristina Sá Valentim and Helena Freitas
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:108
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  29. The association between exposure to PM2.5 chemical constituents and obesity remains to be elucidated, as most studies have used a single measure of obesity. This study aimed to investigate the associations of exp...

    Authors: Tingting Ye, Ying Shao, Changwei Cai, Yuchen Li, Bin Yu, Xu Qiao, Chuanteng Feng, Peng Jia and Shujuan Yang
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:107
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  30. In this study, 15 sampling sites were set up in Dongting Lake, a typical river-connected lake in China, to investigate water quality and diatioms in March, June, September and December from year 2017 to 2022. ...

    Authors: Guanghan Yan, Xueyan Yin, Xing Wang and Minsheng Huang
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:106
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  31. Dual crises happen when an acute shock unfolds in the context of a creeping crisis. The July 2021 floods in the Vesdre river basin (Wallonia, Belgium) is a typical case of such dual crises in the context of cl...

    Authors: Mathilde de Goër de Herve and Wieke D. Pot
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:105
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  32. The snowline exhibits significant seasonal shifts upward and downward, reflecting the ever-changing dynamics of the seasons and being influenced by climate variations, which can vary annually. These fluctuatio...

    Authors: Arvind Pandey, Deepanshu Parashar, Sarita Palni, Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Arun Pratap Mishra, Ajit Pratap Singh, Romulus Costache, Tuhami Jamil Abdulqadim, Chaitanya Baliram Pande, Abebe Debele Tolche and Mohd Yawar Ali Khan
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:104
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  33. The reconstruction of the pollution history using aquatic sedimentary archives is of major relevance not only for the present and past, but also for future actions. The extent and influence of past anthropogen...

    Authors: Christina A. Schwanen, Georg Stauch, Philipp Schulte and Jan Schwarzbauer
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:103
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  34. Persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT), or very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances are a wide class of chemicals that are recalcitrant to degradation, easily transported, and potentially harmful to human...

    Authors: Parviel Chirsir, Emma H. Palm, Sivani Baskaran, Emma L. Schymanski, Zhanyun Wang, Raoul Wolf, Sarah E. Hale and Hans Peter H. Arp
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:102
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  35. There is indisputable evidence that the environment, humans and wildlife are continuously exposed not to single but to multiple chemicals from different sources. Exposure to these mixtures can lead to combined...

    Authors: Gabriele Treu, Jona Schulze, Wiebke Galert and Enken Hassold
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:101
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  36. This study aimed to investigate the adsorption efficiency of Cd and Mn using natural sorbents—bentonite, zeolite and stabilized digested dewatered waste sludge. The main contributions of the scientific article...

    Authors: Veronika Prepilková, Juraj Poništ, Anna Ďuricová, Jozef Salva, Marián Schwarz, Dagmar Samešová and Martina Mordačová
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:100
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  37. In 2020, the European Commission released its Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability towards a Toxic Free Environment (CSS) as part of the European Union’s zero pollution ambition, which is a key commitment of ...

    Authors: Tobias Mohr, Ivo Schliebner, Michael Neumann, Lise Oules, Hans Peter H. Arp and Sarah E. Hale
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:99
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  38. Evidence about associations of phthalates metabolites with increased serum uric acid (SUA) levels in pregnant women remains unknown. To address this, we conducted a cross-sectional population-based study inclu...

    Authors: Qifu Hong, Tao Pu, Maojie Li, Zhongbao Chen, Xingyan Liu, Rong Zeng, Mingzhe Zhang, Lulu Dai, Songlin An, Xubo Shen, Xuejun Shang, Yuanzhong Zhou and Kunming Tian
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:98
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  40. The environmental impact of electric scooters has been the subject of critical debate in the scientific community for the past 5 years. The data published so far are very inhomogeneous and partly methodologica...

    Authors: Corinna Baumgartner and Eckard Helmers
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:96
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  41. We conducted a study in a cemetery area covering 2608.53 m2 in the municipality of Nova Hartz, Metropolitan Region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Soil samples were collected to determine the physicochemical p...

    Authors: Leandra Morandi, Willian Fernando de Borba, Clóvis Orlando da Ros, Vanderlei Rodrigues da Silva, Marcos Toebe, Lucindo Somavilla, Pedro Daniel da Cunha Kemerich and Dienifer Stahlhöfer
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:95
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  42. Wood plays an important ecological role in rivers. Yet challenges arise when large wood (LW) is mobilised and transported during floods. Due to a lack of quantitative data, movement behaviour of LW during floo...

    Authors: Gabriel Spreitzer, Isabella Schalko, Robert M. Boes and Volker Weitbrecht
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:94
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  43. This study was carried out in 2022 to examine the yield, yield components and changes in crop water stress index (CWSI) and vegetation index in black cumin with deficit irrigation. Five different irrigation wa...

    Authors: Hasan Ali Irik, Engin Kaymaz, Pembe Saban Polu, Erman Beyzi, İhsan Serkan Varol, Ali Unlukara and Halil Kirnak
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:93
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  44. Bacterial drug resistance represents a significant global concern, with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis posing a particularly grave threat to contemporary healthcare systems. This study aims to reveal ...

    Authors: Yi-Chang Zhao, Zhi-Hua Sun, Jia-Kai Li, Huai-yuan Liu, Hua-Lin Cai, Wei Cao, Feng Yu, Bi-Kui Zhang and Miao Yan
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:92
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  45. The fish embryo acute toxicity (FET) test with the zebrafish (Danio rerio) was developed to assess the acute fish toxicity of chemicals or environmental samples as a replacement for the Acute Fish Test (AFT) with...

    Authors: Inska S. Reichstein, Alischa H. Becker, Sarah Johann, Thomas Braunbeck, Sabrina Schiwy, Henner Hollert and Andreas Schiwy
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:91
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  46. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants with significant adverse effects on human health, particularly concerning fetal development during pregnancy. This study investig...

    Authors: Chou-Yi Hsu, Cong Liu, Natalia S. Morozova, Shaik Althaf Hussain, Ashwani Kumar, Jaafaru Sani Mohammed, Atreyi Pramanik, Nizomiddin Juraev, Saad Hayif Jasim Ali and Moslem Lari Najafi
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:90
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  47. The enactment of the Environmental Protection Tax Law was a major event in the process of China's economic and social development. This law has achieved certain results in the first two years since enactment, ...

    Authors: Chen Ming-jun and Zhou Jian-ya
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:89
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  48. A recently published article, by Reiber et al., on the representativity of macroinvertebrate communities in outdoor micro- or mesocosm studies, used as a higher tier tool in the environmental risk assessment o...

    Authors: Udo Hommen, Marie Brown, Eric Bruns, Klaus Peter Ebke, Ivo Roessink, Tido Strauss and Nadine Taylor
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:88
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  49. Groundwater resources are essential for drinking water, irrigation, and the economy mainly in semiarid environments where rainfall is limited. Currently, unpredictable rainfall due to climate change and pollut...

    Authors: Sachin P. Shinde, Virendra N. Barai, Bhau K. Gavit, Sunil A. Kadam, Atul A. Atre, Chaitanya Baliram Pande, Subodh Chandra Pal, Neyara Radwan, Abebe Debele Tolche and Ismail Elkhrachy
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:87
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  50. Long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic (As) and cigarette smoking has been associated with adverse health effects such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. Oxidative stress is one of th...

    Authors: Sepideh Nemati-Mansour, Mohammad Mosaferi, Javad Babaie, Asghar Mohammadpoorasl, Reza Dehghanzadeh, Leila Nikniaz and Mohammad Miri
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2024 36:86
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