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TL;DR: This review presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse range of practice, applications, and researches of CW systems for removing various contaminants from wastewater in developing countries, placing them in the overall context of the need for low-cost and sustainable wastewater treatment systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effects of coastal vegetation on tsunami damage based on field survey and data analysis carried out after the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004 and found that two layers of vegetation in the vertical direction with P. odoratissimus and Casuarina equisetifolia and a horizontal vegetation structure of small and large diameter trees were also important for increasing drag and trapping floating objects, broken branches, houses, and people.

TL;DR: The present review highlights the practice, applications, and research of treatment wetlands under tropical and subtropical conditions since 2000 and shows removal of biochemical oxygen demand and total suspended solid was shown to be very efficient and consistent across all types of Treatment wetlands.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the adsorption behavior of Ciprofloxacin (CPX) antibiotic on polyethylene (PE) microplastics through batch adaption experiments under various environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Correlation between the distribution coefficient (log D(ow)) and removal efficiencies of pharmaceutical compounds in the CWs showed that pharmaceutical removal efficiency was significantly and inversely correlated with log D(OW) value, but not with log K(ow) value.