The land carrying capacity and environmental risk assessment of livestock and poultry breeding considering crop planting

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - At present, the contradiction between survival and ecology necessitates the integration of crop planting, chemical fertilizer application, and...     

Selective removal of common cyanotoxins: a review

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The development of cyanobacterial blooms can have adverse effects on water bodies and may produce cyanotoxins. Several physical and chemical methods...     

A comprehensive review on green buildings research: bibliometric analysis during 1998–2018

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Buildings account for nearly 2/5ths of global energy expenditure. Due to this figure, the 90s witnessed the rise of green buildings (GBs) that were...     

基于"成本-能力-能效"的长江经济带城市韧性评估

通过构建城市韧性"成本-能力-能效"的评估模型,综合运用熵值法、主成分分析法、SBM模型、探索性空间数据分析和K-means聚类方法,对长江经济带126个城市的韧性进行综合定量评估,归纳总结城市韧性模式和聚类特征,并运用GWR模型分析影响韧性能力的成本因素,探究韧性效率的驱动机制.研究表明:(1)分维度来看,核心城市呈现韧性成本和韧性能力的"双高",韧性效率则由非核心城市引领.从均衡的角度来看,韧性成本、韧性能效具有明显的水平层级性,而韧性能力在城市间的分野相对不大.(2)综合来看,韧性成本和韧性能力随城市规模的扩张而逐渐增加,而韧性效率逐渐衰减;韧性模式具有明显的上中下游区际差异性:上游地区表现为"低耗低能高效",中游地区"低耗低能中效",下游地区为"高耗高能低效";韧性的空间联系兼有核心城市垂直极化和一般城市扁平抱团.(3)从机制看,全社会用电量、建成区面积和科技支出是影响城市韧性能力的主要成本因素,不同韧性模式的城市具有差异化的主控因素.研究对于完善城市韧性评价体系、丰富城市韧性评估视角和推动城市韧性建设具有重要的现实意义.     

Effects of climate variables on the transmission of COVID-19: a systematic review of 62 ecological studies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was initially discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan City in China and has caused one of the...     

Zingiber officinale ethanolic extract attenuates oxidative stress,steroidogenic gene expression alterations,and testicular histopathology induced by sodium arsenite in male rats

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Arsenic (As) indelibly exists in the environment and may reach to a food chain. Flavors and herbs are recognized sources of natural antioxidants that...     

Conversion of waste plastics into value-added carbon materials

Plastic pollution is a major environmental issue worldwide, calling for advanced methods to recycle waste plastics in the context of the circular economy. Here we review methods and strategies to convert waste plastics into value-added carbon materials, with focus on sources, properties, pretreatment of waste plastics, and on preparation of carbon materials. Pretreatment techniques include mechanical crushing, plastic stabilization and electrospinning. Carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon nanosheets, carbon spheres and porous carbon are prepared by oxygen-limited carbonization, catalytic carbonization, the template-based method, and pressure carbonization. We emphasize the conversion of polyethene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, halogenated plastics, polyurethane and mixed plastics.

     

Lithium extraction from salt lake brines with high magnesium/lithium ratio: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - The demand for lithium is growing rapidly with the increase in electric vehicles, batteries and electronic equipments. Lithium can be extracted from brines, yet...     

Improved product selectivity of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide by tuning local carbon dioxide concentration with multiphysics models

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) is promising to alleviate carbon emissions and produce fuels and materials in a circular way, yet effective...     

China’s sponge cities alleviate urban flooding and water shortage: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - About one tenth of humans are impacted by water shortages around the globe. Water resilience is worsening under climate change because intensifying weather...