Showing papers in "Science of The Total Environment in 2020"

TL;DR: The quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater affords the ability to monitor the prevalence of infections among the population via wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and highlights the viability of WBE for monitoring infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, in communities.

TL;DR: The impact of COVID-19 on society and global environment is described, and the possible ways in which the disease can be controlled has also been discussed therein.

TL;DR: The research shows that there is a significant association between contingency measures and improvement in air quality, clean beaches and environmental noise reduction, and decreasing GHG concentrations during a short period is not a sustainable way to clean up the environment.

TL;DR: The evidence for potential negative effects of microplastics in the human body is reviewed, focusing on pathways of exposure and toxicity, with a focus on particle toxicity.

TL;DR: There is a significant relationship between air pollution and COVID-19 infection, which could partially explain the effect of national lockdown and provide implications for the control and prevention of this novel disease.

TL;DR: Confidence is given to the regulatory bodies that even during unfavourable meteorology, a significant improvement in air quality could be expected if strict execution of air quality control plans is implemented.

TL;DR: The study is thought to be a useful supplement to the regulatory bodies since it showed the pollution source control can attenuate the air quality.

TL;DR: Environmental data released by NASA and ESA before and after the coronavirus pandemic is compiled and its impact on environmental quality is discussed.

TL;DR: The temperature variation and humidity may also be important factors affecting the COVID-19 mortality, as suggested in this study.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the long-term exposure to this pollutant may be one of the most important contributors to fatality caused by the COVID-19 virus in these regions and maybe across the whole world.

TL;DR: In this review paper, a variety of AOPs, such as Fenton or Fenton-like reaction, oz onation or catalytic ozonation, photocatalytic oxidation, electrochemical oxidation, and ionizing radiation were briefly introduced, including their principles, characteristics, main influencing factors and applications.

TL;DR: It is indicated that mean temperature has a positive linear relationship with the number of COVID-19 cases with a threshold of 3 °C, and there is no evidence supporting that case counts of CO VID-19 could decline when the weather becomes warmer, which provides useful implications for policymakers and the public.

TL;DR: After two weeks of lockdown, urban air pollution markedly decreased but with substantial differences among pollutants, and there are still open questions on why PM10 levels were much less reduced than BC and NO2 and on what is the proportion of the abatement of pollution directly related to the lockdown, without meteorological interferences.

TL;DR: The lock down of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the air quality in many cities across the globe to improve and drop in water pollutions in some parts of the world.

TL;DR: Among the components of the weather, only temperature average (°C) was significantly correlated with covid-19 pandemic (r = 0.392; p < .01), and the finding serves as an input to reduce the incidence rate of covd-19 in Indonesia.

TL;DR: Overall, existing knowledge shows that the COVID-19 crisis entails an excellent opportunity for planners and policy makers to take transformative actions towards creating cities that are more just, resilient, and sustainable.

TL;DR: The hazard potential of synthetic organic dyes should be assessed, especially their influence on aquatic biota, not least because dyes in water ecosystems may pose a threat to animal or human health as higher-order consumers.

TL;DR: The results in this study support the fact that strict quarantine measures can not only protect the public from COVID-19, but also exert a positive impact on the environment.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need for further research to establish methodologies for wastewater surveillance and understand the implications of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

TL;DR: It is found that average temperature, minimum temperature, and air quality were significantly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, Covid-19 face masks were used to detect plastic pollution and single-use plastics.No abstract available for the Covid 19 study, no abstract available.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in stools from COVID-19 patients, and reported the occurrence of the virus in wastewaters worldwide.

TL;DR: Preliminary evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic may be partially suppressed with temperature and humidity increases is provided, however, active measures must be taken to control the source of infection, block transmission and prevent further spread of CO VID-19.

TL;DR: Although the partial lockdown has contributed to a positive impact on air quality, it is important to take into account the negative impacts on social aspects, considering the deaths caused by COVID-19 and also the dramatic economic effects.

TL;DR: The effect of lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on air pollution in four Southern European cities (Nice, Rome, Valencia and Turin) and Wuhan (China) was quantified, with a focus on ozone (O3) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The findings here suggest that to minimize the impact of future epidemics similar to COVID-19, the max number of days per year in which Italian provincial capitals can exceed the limits set for PM10 or for ozone, considering their meteorological conditions, is about 48 days.

TL;DR: Several key aspects of catalytic ozonation, such as pH effect, the catalyst performance, the catalytic mechanism were proposed, to which more attention should be paid in future study.

TL;DR: The impact of the measures on the air quality of the city by comparing the particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations determined during the partial lockdown with values obtained in the same period of 2019 and also with the weeks prior to the virus outbreak.

TL;DR: The structure of virus; varying symptoms among COVID-19, SARS, MERS and common flu; the probable mechanism behind the infection and its immune response; and traditional Indian medicinal plants as possible novel therapeutic approaches, exclusively targeting SARS-CoV-2 and its pathways are discussed.

TL;DR: A geodatabase of 35 environmental, socioeconomic, topographic, and demographic variables that could explain the spatial variability of disease incidence across the continental United States is compiled and it suggested that even though incorporating spatial autocorrelation could significantly improve the performance of the global ordinary least square model; these models still represent a significantly poor performance compared to the local models.