Perinatal exposure to low doses of cypermethrin induce the puberty-related hormones and decrease the time to puberty in the female offspring

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Pyrethroid insecticides are ubiquitously detected in environmental media, food, and urine samples. Our previous epidemiological study reported a...     

Utilisation of environmentally friendly okara-based biosorbent for cadmium(II) removal

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Heavy metals released by various industries are among the major pollutants found in water resources. In this research, biosorption technique was...     

Can green finance reduce carbon emission intensity? Mechanism and threshold effect

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Against the background of carbon emission reduction, green finance (GF) has become a crucial financial instrument that promotes industrial...     

An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Determining Corn Stover Removal Rate and Transboundary Effects

Bioenergy production involves different agents with potentially different objectives, and an agent’s decision often has transboundary impacts on other agents along the bioenergy value chain. Understanding and estimating the transboundary impacts is essential to portraying the interactions among the different agents and in the search for the optimal configuration of the bioenergy value chain. We develop an agent-based model to mimic the decision making by feedstock producers and feedstock-to-biofuel conversion plant operators and propose multipliers (i.e., ratios of economic values accruing to different segments and associated agents in the value chain) for assessing the transboundary impacts. Our approach is generic and thus applicable to a variety of bioenergy production systems at different sites and geographic scales. We apply it to the case of producing ethanol using corn stover in Iowa, USA. The results from the case study indicate that stover removal rate is site specific and varies considerably with soil type, as well as other factors, such as stover price and harvesting cost. In addition, ethanol production using corn stover in the study region would have strong positive ripple effects, with the values of multipliers varying with greenhouse gas price and national energy security premium. The relatively high multiplier values suggest that a large portion of the value associated with corn stover ethanol production would accrue to the downstream end of the value chain instead of stover producers.     

典型地区大气新型卤代阻燃剂污染特征、来源分析及人体暴露

利用大流量主动采样器采集了广州市天河区（23°08''56" N,113°21''30" E）和五指山国家自然保护区（18°54''02" N,109°41''24" E）两个典型地区的大气气相和颗粒相样品,测定了8种新型卤代阻燃剂（new halogenated flame retardants,NHFRs）的浓度,包括syn-DP、anti-DP、TBPH、PBEB、HBB、TBE、TBB、DBDPE.结果表明,广州大气中∑NHFRs平均浓度（335 pg·m^-3）远高于五指山（90.6 pg·m^-3）.广州大气中DBDPE为优势单体,占比为66.9%;五指山大气中NHFRs则以TBPH为主（65.8%）.季节变化上,广州的∑NHFRs浓度呈现一定季节变化,而五指山的∑NHFRs无明显季节变化,这可能与两地NHFRs的来源不同有关.结合主成分分析、风向频率和后向轨迹模型分析,发现两地阻燃剂来源有较大的差异：广州大气中NHFRs可能主要来源于电子垃圾拆解、工业输入和消费品的再挥发,而五指山大气中阻燃剂可能以外源输入为主.健康风险评价结果显示,我国大型城市大气中高浓度NHFRs的持续暴露会对城市居民健康特别是婴儿健康造成潜在危害.     

Releasing nitrogen from ammoniated lignin by white rot fungus cometabolizes environmental pollutants

The nitrogen-modified lignocelluloses(NML) produced under oxic ammoniation was metabolized by white rot fungus, NH4^ -N was released, NO3^- -N concentration was decreased and total nitrogen loss was blocked within incubation period. During releasing nitrogen from the metabolism of NML, white rot fungus cometabolized recalcitrant environmental pollutants and showed higher degradation capability. Results indicated that this NML complex colonized by white rot fungus might be effective with economic feasibility when they are applied into the vast field ecosystem, it might stabilize NH4^ nitrngen flux and bioremediate the polluted environmental sites.     

农村防震减灾工作的重要意义和当前几项紧迫的工作

本文简要从地震科普的角度阐述了在农村推进防震减灾工作的重要意义,并试述当前几项紧迫的工作,强调了群众参与的意义。     

绿色团队

当主流商学院开始将更多的企业社会责任（CSR）话题带入教室时，一些教育家仍认为这些机构的努力不够。他们相信，现在所需要的，是围绕可持续发展概念来确定MBA教学大纲，大纲仍然讲授基础科目，但要染上绿色。     

印染废水的治理研究

印染废水是一种有机物含量高、色度深、生化性差、难降解的工业生产废水。对印染废水处理技术的研究现状进行了介绍．讨论了各自的作用机理及其在印染废水处理中的应用。为工程设计和生产工艺提出了一些有益的建议。在此基础上对印染废水处理的发展趋势做了分析和展望。