Pedro J. J. Alvarez

TL;DR: Eisenia fetida is unlikely to experience acute toxicity as a result of C60 occurrence in soil, and whether sublethal toxicity may decrease earthworm populations that are chronically exposed to C60 at lower concentrations remains to be determined.

TL;DR: A new mechanism via which graphene materials enhance oxidation of organic contaminants by metal oxides is reported, which may guide the development of novel metal oxide-graphene nanocomposites for contaminant removal.

TL;DR: It is discovered that soil fungi, plants, and some bacteria possess peroxidase and carotenoid cleavage oxygenase enzymes that effectively destroy with varied degrees of efficiency and selectivity the carotanoid lipofuscin found in macular degeneration.

TL;DR: A facile one-pot, alkali-assisted hydrothermal treatment (AHT) method for cost-efficient hazardous waste dewatering, dry mass minimization and volume reduction, which demonstrates that AHT can be widely adapted and scaled up to treat various hazardous organic waste streams, which is of significant industrial and environmental interest.

TL;DR: The rapid disappearance of contaminants and their metabolites, rebound of geochemical footprints, and resilience of microbial community unequivocally document the natural capacity of groundwater ecosystem to attenuate and recover from a large volume of catastrophic spill of ethanol-based biofuel.