Showing papers in "Science of The Total Environment in 2019"

TL;DR: Improved brine management strategies are required to limit the negative environmental impacts and reduce the economic cost of disposal, thereby stimulating further developments in desalination facilities to safeguard water supplies for current and future generations.

TL;DR: It is affirmed that nonrenewable energy consumption and economic growth increase carbon emission flaring while renewable energy consumption declines CO2 emissions, and effective policy implications could be drawn toward modern and environmentally friendly energy sources, especially in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals.

TL;DR: The study found a strong positive effect of energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and confirmed the validity of the pollution haven hypothesis.

TL;DR: This study investigated the relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, financial development, and ecological footprint for the period from 1977 to 2013 in 11 newly industrialized countries and concluded that there is bi-directional causality betweenEconomic growth and ecological footprints.

TL;DR: The results indicate that microplastic counts increase over time where successive sludge applications are performed, and stress the relevance of sludge as a driver of soil microplastics contamination.

TL;DR: The fundamentals, advantages and disadvantages of single and coupled Fenton optimization processes for organic wastewater treatment were reviewed, and some important operation parameters on the degradation efficiency of organic pollutants was studied to provide guidance for the optimization of operation parameters.

TL;DR: Important aspects of antibiotic pollution in fresh waters are highlighted: that concentrations of antibiotics in the environment are substantial, that micro-organisms are susceptible to this, that bacteria can evolve resistance in the environments, and that antibiotic pollution affects natural food webs while interacting with other stressors; which taken together poses a number of challenges for environmental scientists.

TL;DR: The presence of mixtures of pesticide residues in soils are the rule rather than the exception, indicating that environmental risk assessment procedures should be adapted accordingly to minimize related risks to soil life and beyond.

TL;DR: Four French research institutes were mandated to produce a critical scientific analysis on the latest knowledge of the causes, mechanisms, consequences and predictability of eutrophication phenomena and the methodology and the main findings are provided.

TL;DR: Ground water and drinking water was analysed for the presence of microplastic particles using FTIR imaging and these particles were identified as polyethylene, polyamide, polyester, polyvinylchloride or epoxy resin and between 50 and 150 μm in size.

TL;DR: Abundance of natural resources mitigates CO2 emission in Russia, but contributes to pollution in South Africa, and natural resources help to form Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Brazil, China, Russia, and South Africa.

TL;DR: The PMG-ARDL analysis confirmed the role of non-renewable energy consumption in depleting environmental quality while renewable energy consumption was found to improve environmental sustainability, and the unexpected long-run fertility-ecological footprint nexus was connected with the divergent fertility rate information of the EU member countries.

TL;DR: The results showed that the polystyrene MP induced gut microbiota dysbiosis, intestinal barrier dysfunction and metabolic disorders in mice, and indicated that poly Styrene MP caused metabolic disorders.

TL;DR: This work critically reviews the papers available in scientific literature on consolidated (ozonation, AC and membranes) and new advanced treatment methods (mainly AOPs) to analyse their efficiency in the removal of CECs from wastewater.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that MPs exposure causes gut damage as well as alterations in gut metabolome and microbiome, yielding novel insights into the consequences of MPs exposure.

TL;DR: An estimation of the ecological risk from SAMPs indicated that a minor ecological consequence was present, necessitating further evaluation of SAMPs pollution, and preliminary evaluation indicated that textile clothes are likely major source of the airborne microplastics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed two new algorithms for the first time in flood susceptibility analysis, namely multivariate discriminant analysis (MDA), and classification and regression trees (CART), incorporated with a widely used algorithm, the support vector machine (SVM), to create a flood susceptibility map using an ensemble modeling approach.

TL;DR: A database of Chemicals associated with Plastic Packaging (CPPdb), which includes chemicals used during manufacturing and/or present in final packaging articles, is presented and the most hazardous chemicals identified here should be assessed in detail as potential candidates for substitution.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, the rural sites in the southern part of Hamburg showed highest concentrations of microplastic particles, most likely a result of factors such as the comb out capacity of the different forest types and/or direct input pathways from the agricultural areas and the nearby highway.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis reveals that the collection of studies that validate the inversed-U shaped relationship has an average of US$8910 as the turning point of annual income level, and Heterogeneity is confirmed among turning point in studies on EKC hypothesis.

TL;DR: This review will highlight key future research areas for scientists and policymakers, and increase overall understanding of soil MPs pollution and its potential environmental impacts.

TL;DR: A brine treatment technology framework is introduced to outline the Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) approach through high freshwater recovery and wastewater volume minimization, which results in the reduction of environmental pollution, minimization of waste volume and production of freshwater with high recovery.

TL;DR: The current literature review provides an overview of the existing social-scientific literature on plastic, ranging from risk awareness, consumers' preferences, and predictors of usage behavior to political and psychological intervention strategies to identify potential factors for future interventions to reduce plastic consumption.

TL;DR: It seems that WWTPs with conventional treatment processes are capable of significant reduction of ARB but are not efficient in ARG removal, as the levels of antibiotics detected in influent and effluent ofWWTPs were presented.

TL;DR: This study investigates the likelihood of yield loss of wheat, maize, rice and soybeans in response to droughts of various intensities in the 10 largest producing countries and highlights the non-linear response ofield loss risk to the increase in drought severity.

TL;DR: The findings illustrate that microplastic acts as a distinct microbial habitat (compared with natural substrates) that could not only change the community structure but also affect microbial functions, potentially impacting the ecological functions of microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the effects of environmental factors on the properties and sorption behavior of microplastics, presents a further discussion on the fate ofmicroplastics adsorption on contaminants, and critically discusses the mechanism of sorption behaviors between micro/nanoplastics and normal contaminants.

TL;DR: In this review, the occurrence and distribution of antibiotics in aquatic environments, including surface water, wastewater and effluent of wastewater treatment plants, were analyzed and summarized, and ionizing radiation may be a promising technology for removal of antibiotics from water and wastewater.

TL;DR: It is suggested that both RF and DT models can be used in other similar non-eruption-related landslide studies in the tephra-deposited rich volcanoes, as they are capable of rapidly generating accurate and stable LSM maps for risk mitigation, management practices, and decision-making.

TL;DR: The examined results of dynamic ARDL simulations indicate that energy consumption, urbanization, economic growth, financial development, economic globalization, social globalization and political globalization have positive effect on CO2 emissions in Pakistan while trade, innovation and foreign direct investment have negative effect onCO2 emissions.