The National Air Pollution Technical Information Center: Its Operation and Services

This report describes the operations of the National Air Pollution Technical Information Center of the Division of Air Pollution, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and discusses the Center’s expanding coverage of the world’s journal literature and the report literature from four major clearinghouses. Also reported are efforts to complete the development of an effective information storage and retrieval system, including vocabulary control and hardware testing. A brief analysis is made of the relationships between the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) ana the Air Pollution Technical Information Center (APTIC) and the benefits to be derived from an effective technical literature program.     

Distribution and origin of potentially toxic elements in a multi-aquifer system

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Pollution of the potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is a major concern in the metal ore-mining environment. Active polymetallic industries and mines...     

Adsorption of DBT and 4,6-DMDBTon nanoporous activated carbons: the role of surface chemistry and the solvent

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Adsorption of dibenzothiophene (DBT) and 4,6-dimethyldibenzothiophene (4,6-DMDBT) from solutions in hexane and hexadecane respectively as well as in...     

Advancing “Autonomous” sensing and prediction of the subsurface environment: a review and exploration of the challenges for soil and groundwater contamination

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Can we hope for autonomous (self-contained in situ) sensing of subsurface soil and groundwater pollutants to satisfy relevant regulatory criteria?...     

Airway hyperresponsiveness development and the toxicity of PM2.5

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is characterized by excessive bronchoconstriction in response to nonspecific stimuli, thereby leading to airway...     

Research progress on the association between environmental pollutants and the resistance mechanism of PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The occurrence and progression of ovarian cancer are closely related to genetics and environmental pollutants. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)...     

Levels and risks of surface contamination by thirteen antineoplastic drugs in the Czech and Slovak hospitals and pharmacies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The consumption of hazardous antineoplastic drugs (ADs) used in anticancer chemotherapies is steadily increasing representing thus risks to both human...     

Participatory and deliberative assessment of the landscape and natural resource social values of marine and coastal ecosystem services: the case of Kyrenia (Girne) Region from Northern Cyprus

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This paper aims to identify and evaluate the landscape and natural resource (traditional ecological knowledge) social values of marine and coastal...     

Microplastic pollution on the soil and its consequences on the nitrogen cycle: a review

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Microplastics (MPs) correspond to plastics between 0.1 μm and 5 mm in diameter, and these can be intentionally manufactured to be microscopic or...     

Analysis of environmental degradation mechanism in the nexus among energy consumption and poverty in Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The study aims to analyze the mediating role of environmental degradation (ED) in the association between energy consumption (EC) and poverty (POV) in...     

Performance of the emerging biochar on the stabilization of potentially toxic metals in smelter- and mining-contaminated soils

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Soil potentially toxic metals (PTMs) pollution caused by anthropogenic activities has become serious concern with respect to the crop safety...     

The biosorption of reactive red dye onto orange peel waste: a study on the isotherm and kinetic processes and sensitivity analysis using the artificial neural network approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The agricultural waste of orange peels (OPs) was utilized as a cheap biosorbent and then tested for its ability to treat the reactive red (RR) dye...     

Copper uptake kinetics and toxicological effects of ionic Cu and CuO nanoparticles on the seaweed Ulva rigida

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Copper ion (Cu2+) and copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticle (NP) ecotoxicity are of increasing concern as they are considered to be a potential risk to...     

Distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus and estimation of nutrient fluxes in the water and sediments of Liangzi Lake,China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Water samples and sediments from Liangzi Lake were taken and used to study the vertical distribution characteristics of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus...     

Anti-oxidant and hepatoprotective effects of Salvia officinalis essential oil against vanadium-induced oxidative stress and histological changes in the rat liver

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The present study was designed to evaluate the protective effects of Salvia officinalis essential oil (SOEO) against vanadium-induced hepatotoxicity...     

Low-carbon energy strategies and economic growth in developed and developing economies: the case of energy efficiency and energy diversity

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - There has been growing interest in studying the relationship between energy strategies (energy efficiency and energy diversity) and economic growth to...     

Investigating the relationship between lead speciation and bioaccessibility of mining impacted soils and dusts

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Lead (Pb) bioaccessibility measurements have been the subject of much research in recent years, given the desire to develop a cost-effective and...     

Water and soil contaminated by arsenic: the use of microorganisms and plants in bioremediation

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Owing to their roles in the arsenic (As) biogeochemical cycle, microorganisms and plants offer significant potential for developing...     

Distribution and source of plutonium in sediments from the southern Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Here, we report on new data (75 analyses) of plutonium (Pu) isotopes to elucidate activity concentrations, inventories, sources, and their transport...     

Unveiling the recycling characteristics and trends of spent lithium-ion battery: a scientometric study

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is both essential to sustainable resource utilization and environmental conservation. While spent...