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Delhi-NCR weather report: National capital to witness clear skies on first day of Navratri, know IMD updates for next...

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Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 01:12:00 GMT

As the monsoon marked its exit from the national capital and the adjoining NCR, the city has been witnessing hot weather as well as clear skies.

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AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal to relocate to party's RS MP Ashok Mittal's residence in Delhi

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Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:01:00 GMT

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Supremo Arvind Kejriwal will relocate to a bungalow at 5, Ferozshah Road, Delhi, which is currently allotted to the party's Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal, the party has conformed.

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Delhi to launch 'E-Detection' system: Here's how it will prevent polluting vehicles from entering

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Published On :: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:41:00 GMT

India to launch an e-detection system to identify old and polluting vehicles in Delhi before Diwali.

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Delhi chokes amid rising air pollution, AQI crosses 400 at...

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Published On :: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:19:00 GMT

AQI in Anand Vihar area crossed the 400 mark, being recorded as 405 at 7 AM, categorized as 'severe', worse than the AQI of 367 recorded on Saturday.

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Delhi's air quality deteriorates to 'very poor' category, likely to worsen after festival

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Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:05:00 GMT

Delhi's air quality continued to deteriorate, remaining in the "very poor" category on Diwali, with levels expected to worsen to the "severe" category due to bursting of firecrackers at night.

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Critical review of fluorescence and absorbance measurements as surrogates for the molecular weight and aromaticity of dissolved organic matter

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1663-1702
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00183D, Critical Review

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Julie A. Korak, Garrett McKay
Optical surrogates are used to characterize dissolved organic matter composition like aromaticity and molecular weight. We both review the genesis of surrogate-composition relationships and critically evaluate additional supporting evidence.
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Vehicular pollution as the primary source of oxidative potential of PM2.5 in Bhubaneswar, a non-attainment city in eastern India

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1716-1735
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00150H, Paper

Subhasmita Panda, Chinmay Mallik, S. Suresh Babu, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Tuhin Kumar Mandal, Trupti Das, R. Boopathy
Overview of major PM_2.5 sources responsible for catalytic ROS production.
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Erosion of rigid plastics in turbid (sandy) water: quantitative assessment for marine environments and formation of microplastics

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1847-1858
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00122B, Paper

Ali Al-Darraji, Ibukun Oluwoye, Christopher Lagat, Shuhei Tanaka, Ahmed Barifcani
Mechanical degradation (erosion) of plastics in the marine environment has been reported in many literature studies but without quantitative information. Therefore, this study quantified the erosion of some plastics in the marine environment.
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Emerging investigator series: in-depth chemical profiling of tire and artificial turf crumb rubber: aging, transformation products, and transport pathways

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1703-1715
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00326H, Paper

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Madison H. McMinn, Ximin Hu, Katherine Poisson, Phillip Berger, Paola Pimentel, Xinwen Zhang, Pranali Ashara, Ella L. Greenfield, Jessica Eig, Zhenyu Tian
Chemical profiling of artificial turf crumb rubber reveals time-based trends in transformation products and transport pathways.
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Experimental assessment of low temperature plasma devices for bacterial aerosol inactivation in the air duct of HVAC systems

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1836-1846
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00158C, Paper

Yang Lv, Xiaodong Wang, Beibei Wang, Wenjie Yuan
This study evaluates the effectiveness of low temperature plasma (LTP) devices in the air duct of HVAC systems, achieving 82% bacterial aerosol inactivation under optimal conditions, advocating their use in public buildings to improve air quality.
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Microplastics are effective carriers of bisphenol A and facilitate its escape from wastewater treatment systems

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1811-1820
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00297K, Paper

Wang Li, Bo zu, Lei Li, Jian Li, Jiawen Li, Qiujie Xiang
Microplastics (MPs) pollution is a major issue in aquatic environments.
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Influence of tritium exposure route on vegetation types at the Savannah River Site

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1736-1747
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00311J, Paper

Martine C. Duff, Elizabeth A. Pettitt, Holly VerMeulen
This study shows a relationship between total T content and the OBT:HTO in plants. These results give information on environmental management options if an aqueous or atmospheric T release event from a fusion reactor occurs and reaches a water body.
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Exploring the variability of PFAS in urban sewage: a comparison of emissions in commercial versus municipal urban areas

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1868-1878
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00415A, Paper

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Krlovic N., Saracevic E., Derx J., Gundacker C., Krampe J., Kreuzinger N., Zessner M., Zoboli O.
PFAS in an urban environment can come from various sources. The main activity in the area, i.e. commercial versus municipal, can influence the overall loads and speciation of PFAS in the examined wastewater.
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Storms mobilize organophosphate esters, bisphenols, PFASs, and vehicle-derived contaminants to San Francisco Bay watersheds

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1760-1779
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00117F, Paper

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Katherine T. Peter, Alicia Gilbreath, Melissa Gonzalez, Zhenyu Tian, Adam Wong, Don Yee, Ezra L. Miller, Pedro M. Avellaneda, Da Chen, Andrew Patterson, Nicole Fitzgerald, Christopher P. Higgins, Edward P. Kolodziej, Rebecca Sutton
We evaluated the occurrence of 154 organic contaminants from multiple chemical/use classes in San Francisco Bay watersheds during storm events, revealing complex mixtures and high concentrations transported to receiving waters.
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Assessment of occurrence, source appointment, and ecological risks of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the water–sediment interface of Qiantang River in the Hangzhou region

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1887-1897
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00355A, Paper

Yang Wan, Ziming Wang, Kaiping Xu, Wei Wang, Pengcheng Yao, Aiju You
TCS exhibited the highest concentration across different phases and seasons in QTR, and TCS posed high risks in surface water and low risks in sediment across all sampling sites.
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Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in surface water of national (freshwater) aquatic germplasm resource reserves in Guangdong Province

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1898-1911
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00425F, Paper

Tao Zhou, Jie Li, Weizhen Zhang, Yanyi Zeng, Yuan Gao, Haiyan Li, Wanling Yang, Yongzhan Mai, Qianfu Liu, Caiqin Hu, Chao Wang
EE2, E1, BPA, NP, and E2 were identified as high-risk substances based on comprehensive ecological risk evaluation and fish are the most sensitive organisms.
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Critical insights into data curation and label noise for accurate prediction of aerobic biodegradability of organic chemicals

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1780-1795
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00431K, Paper

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Paulina Körner, Juliane Glüge, Stefan Glüge, Martin Scheringer
The newly developed classifier has a balanced accuracy of 94.2%, better than any other classification model for aerobic biodegradability so far. During the model development, some data points needed to be excluded due to a very high variance.
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Assessment of extracellular polymeric substances production and antioxidant defences in periphytic communities exposed to effluent contaminants

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00446A, Paper

Carlos Silva, Etelvina Figueira, Diana Matos, Carina Sá, Tânia Vidal, Fernando José Mendes Gonçalves, Nelson Abrantes, Joana Luísa Pereira
Periphyton is frequently used in the evaluation of the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems using diatoms as a proxy.
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of benzothiazole oxidation by OH in air and the role of O2

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00461B, Paper

Natalia V. Karimova, Weihong Wang, R. Benny Gerber, Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
Products of the oxidation of BTH by OH in air.
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Degradation of norfloxacin by the synergistic effect of micro–nano bubbles and sodium hypochlorite: kinetics, influencing factors and pathways

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00490F, Paper

Guijuan Li, Yan Cheng, Mengyao Jing, Dan Zhang, Yufei Ma, Shengke Yang
The degradation reaction process and influencing factors of norfloxacin in the sodium hypochlorite and micro–nano bubble composite system.
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How do ecosystem service functions affect ecological health? Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00296B, Paper

Wei Wang, Jun Yang, Guishan Yang, Chao Wu, Jie Yu
Ecosystem services serve as a bridge between social and economic impacts and ecological health.
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Quantitative read-across structure–property relationship (q-RASPR): a novel approach to estimate the bioaccumulative potential for diverse classes of industrial chemicals in aquatic organisms

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00374H, Paper

Prodipta Bhattacharyya, Pabitra Samanta, Ankur Kumar, Shubha Das, Probir Kumar Ojha
The Bioconcentration Factor (BCF) is used to evaluate the bioaccumulation potential of chemical substances in reference organisms, and it directly correlates with ecotoxicity.
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A methodology for estimating indoor sources contribution to PM2.5

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00538D, Paper

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Shiva Nourani, Ana María Villalobos, Hector Jorquera
Quantifying source contributions to indoor PM2.5 brought by indoor PM2.5 sources has been limited by the costs associated to chemical speciation analyses of indoor PM2.5 samples. Here we propose a...
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Emerging investigator series: open dumping and burning: an overlooked source of terrestrial microplastics in underserved communities

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00439F, Paper

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Kendra Z. Hess, Kyle R. Forsythe, Xuewen Wang, Andrea Arredondo-Navarro, Gwen Tipling, Jesse Jones, Melissa Mata, Victoria Hughes, Christine Martin, John Doyle, Justin Scott, Matteo Minghetti, Andrea Jilling, José M. Cerrato, Eliane El Hayek, Jorge Gonzalez-Estrella
Open dumping and burning of solid waste are widely practiced in underserved communities lacking access to solid waste management facilities. The generation of microplastics from these sites has been overlooked.
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Systematic characterization of selenium speciation in coal fly ash

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00398E, Paper

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Estefania Garcia, Pan Liu, Sharon E. Bone, Yinghao Wen, Yuanzhi Tang
A survey study of Se speciation in coal fly ash samples representative of coal source and combustion conditions.
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Mobility of biochar-derived dissolved organic matter and its effects on sulfamerazine transport through saturated soil porous media

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00143E, Paper

Mengya Liu, Xiaochen Liu, Yalu Hu, Qiang Zhang, Usman Farooq, Zhichong Qi, Laotao Lu
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) released from biochar may impact antibiotic mobility and environmental fate in subsurface environments.
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Mobile monitoring reveals the importance of non-vehicular particulate matter sources in London

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00552J, Paper

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Samuel Wilson, Naomi J. Farren, Shona E. Wilde, Rebecca L. Wagner, James D. Lee, Lauren E. Padilla, Greg Slater, Daniel Peters, David. C. Carslaw
A novel application of mobile monitoring to investigate the spatial distribution of vehicular and non-vehicular urban particulate matter sources in London, UK.
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