Showing papers in "Environment International in 2002"

TL;DR: The aqueous solubility data for the APE metabolites indicate that the concentration in water combined with the high partition coefficients will provide a significant reservoir (load) in various environmental compartments and indicate that they will partition effectively into sediments following discharge from STPs.

TL;DR: Although hormone steroids have been detected at a number of sources worldwide, currently, there is limited data on the environmental behaviour and fate of these hormone steroids in different environmental media and the exposure and risk associated with these chemicals are not adequately understood.

TL;DR: The role of anionic surfactants in the environment is ambiguous: they can cause serous environmental pollution with toxic effect on living organisms; otherwise, they can promote the decomposition and/or removal of other inorganic and organic pollutants from the environment.

TL;DR: Resistance development is related with increased activities of antioxidant enzymes, which were important in the protection against cadmium damage, inhibiting lipoperoxide formation, and oxygen free radicals are produced as a mediator of Cadmium toxicity.

TL;DR: Though the study confirms that the domestic sewage can effectively increase water resource for irrigation but there is a need for continuous monitoring of the concentrations of potentially toxic elements in soil, plants and ground water.

TL;DR: Of the 2508 water samples analyzed in 10 districts of Bangladesh, 51%, on an average, contained arsenic levels of 0.05 to 2.50 mg/l, which indicates that a big portion of the total population is highly vulnerable to various internal cancers.

TL;DR: This communication provides an overview for researchers not necessarily familiar with molecular methods of sewage monitoring of 5b-stanols and bile acids, and the two compound classes will be considered separately, and then their integration and future development discussed.

TL;DR: Barley husk and corncob are effective biosorbents concerning the removal of textile dyes from effluent, which are agroindustrial by-products for textile dye removal.

TL;DR: The results showed that the Turkish Black Sea coast is facing heavy metal pollution, with metal concentrations in macroalgae, sea snail, mussel and sediment samples are very high, however, Cd, Pb and Cu concentrations in anchovy fish decreased, while Co, Fe, Zn, Cr, Mn and Ni contents had changed when compared previous data.

TL;DR: The present results supported the use of P viridis as a suitable biomonitoring agent for Cd, Cu and Pb.

TL;DR: Based on the chemical distribution of metals, it is found that Cd, Zn and Cu are the most mobile metals (i.e., metals that can pass easily into the water under changing environmental conditions).

TL;DR: The concentrations of aluminium (Al), arsenic (As), beryllium (Be), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), tin (Sn), thallium (Tl), vanadium (V), and zinc (Zn) were determined in soil samples collected in Alcala de Henares (Madrid, Spain) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It was found that Cd, Co, Cr and Ni did not leach from the ash while Cu and Pb concentrations were insignificant in the leachate regardless of liquid to solid (L/S) ratio.

TL;DR: High-performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) proved to be a fast and relatively easy method to estimate NOM content in water and gave more information than traditional methods on the type of NOM in a water sample and helped the process performance follow-up.

TL;DR: Correlation analysis strongly suggests that HA plays a major role in increasing the concentration of solution Cu and Pb with increasing pH in the 18 soils studied, suggesting that in more acidic environments, FA may play a larger role than HA in governing organo-metallic interactions.

TL;DR: In the industrialized urban area of Avilés (Spain), pooled soil samples from grassland sites were taken after careful sampling design and then investigated for their content of trace elements using a combination of statistic and geostatistic techniques.

TL;DR: It is revealed that the improper handling of refined petroleum products are potential sources of soil contamination in the sampled sites, indicated by the statistically significant levels of TPH and heavy metals observed between the control samples and those collected from the petroleum products handling sites.

TL;DR: The results showed that Hong Kong people spent more than 86% of their time indoors, and homes were shown to be the one of the major exposure sites to NO2, CO and PM10 for all age groups.

TL;DR: The chemical, mineralogical and statistical analyses employed in this study enabled establishment of background values for the area, determination of relationships between metals and identification of sites with anomalous metal concentrations.

TL;DR: The present data indicated that contamination due to Cu and Pb in the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia especially in the offshore areas were not serious, regular biomonitoring studies along the west coastline are recommended.

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that the content of PAHs, Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, S and Zn in the soils and plant bioindicators examined has not changed considerably since 1998.

TL;DR: Caffeine was detected in those areas previously identified for consistently exceeding the water quality criteria for fecal coliform bacteria contamination and there is a marked difference between samples collected in open bay areas and those collected from the Miami River.

TL;DR: The results indicated that organochlorine pesticides taken for analysis were found significantly high in breast cancer patients irrespective of age, diet, and geographic distribution.

TL;DR: Based on the overall physico-chemical data and IBI values, the river health is rapidly degrading due to the combined effect of chemical contaminations and habitat modifications.

TL;DR: Results were related with soil texture (clay content 30%), clay mineralogy (kaolinite and smectite), as a function of transported pore volume.

TL;DR: All elements analyzed are of great importance relative to problems concerning contamination of the soil, stream sediment, ground surface water, and air by individual metals from uncontrolled processing of some metal factories.

TL;DR: DEHP hinders the development of reproductive organs in the female Japanese medaka, and the possibility o f anti-estrogenic activity of DEHP is proposed as the cause.

TL;DR: Psidium guajava L., Psidium cattleyanum Sabine and Mangifera indica L. were tested under field conditions as possible tropical bioindicators of industrial air pollution and showed higher foliar accumulation of F, S and N, more pronounced alterations of biochemical indicators, and less visible leaf injury than P. cattlyanum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a regional contamination of the environment in central-east India that does not share geology or boundary with the Bengal Delta Plain, and more than 200,000 people are at risk.

TL;DR: The obtained results indicate that the main pathway of radioactive contamination of the estuary is through the dissolution in its waters of the radionuclides released by the industrial activities and their later fixation on the particulate materials.