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Aerobiome diversity was under-reported but when comparisons were made, rural aerobiome diversity was often higher (67%). Only two studies experimentally examined the impact of urban and rural aerobiomes on human health outcomes; both found rural aerobiomes shifted immune function away from allergic (Th2-type) responses. Overall, we conclude that significant gaps remain in our understanding of how urbanisation impacts aerobiomes and the health implications of those changes. We highlight the need to standardise methods and make aerobiome data open access to facilitate cross-study comparisons. Further mechanistic studies are urgently needed to examine the impact of aerobiome composition on immune function to demonstrate how urban-driven changes to the aerobiome impact human health - ultimately facilitating the development of healthier cities.Selenium toxicity in groundwater and surface water in many regions globally has resulted in toxicity in the food chain thus harming terrestrial and aquatic animals. Here we assess the environmental controls on selenium fate and transport in soils, groundwater, and rivers at the watershed scale using the SWAT watershed simulation model. We modify the SWAT modeling code to simulate selenium fate and transport in surface runoff, lateral flow, soil percolation, groundwater flow, streamflow, and irrigation water within a watershed subject to oxidation-reduction reactions. This modified SWAT model is applied to an irrigated watershed with selenium problems in the Arkansas River Valley, Colorado. The model is calibrated and tested using observed groundwater and surface water selenium data in different locations of the study area, whereupon global sensitivity analysis is performed to assess controls on selenium fate and transport in soil water, groundwater and streams. The impacts of reaction rates of selenate, selenwatersheds worldwide.A novel approach to synthesize phytic acid (PA) functionalized graphene oxide (P-pFGO-7) treated by the photo-Fenton reaction has been designed, which has been used as an adsorbent for efficient capture of U(VI) from aqueous solution. The structure and morphology of P-pFGO-7 were characterized well. The adsorption property for P-pFGO-7 was comprehensively assessed by batch experiments, showing the high adsorption capacity (266.7 mg/g, at pH = 4.0, T = 298 K), fast adsorption kinetics (~10 min), good selectivity for U(VI) and Ln-An ions in various coexisting ions and excellent regeneration capacity. With the assistance of various characterization techniques and batch adsorption results, it is found that PA makes the most contribution to coordinate U(VI) heavily depending on the PO moiety. P-pFGO-7 could be regenerated by 0.1 mol/L Na2CO3 with ~95% desorption efficiency and reused well after five recycles. This present work provides a feasible route to modify graphene oxide and extend PA for potentially practical application in the removal of U(VI) from radioactive wastewater.Plastics and microplastics increasingly gain importance due to their perils and wide distribution in the marine environment. Microfibers account for the largest percentage of anthropogenic-induced microparticles, which inter alia, consist of plastic, and are found in deep-sea sediments. However, the sinking of fibers from the surface through the water column to the seafloor is still poorly understood. The present study investigates microfibers extracted from sediment trap samples, which were deployed in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (NASG). Buparlisib The average result of eleven analyzed samples showed 913 microfibers per gram of collected particle flux material, with a predominant fiber length shorter than 1 mm (75.6%) and a distribution maximum between 0.2 and 0.4 mm. Further, the average number of microfibers found in this study was used to derive microfiber fluxes for the NASG based on the deployment time of the sediment trap. Extrapolating the computed flux of 94 microfibers m-2 day-1 to the entire NASG area would correspond to a total microfiber mass flux of 9800 t a-1 or 73 × 1013 microfibers a-1 of sinking microfibers through the water column. These findings offer an extended application of sediment traps to monitor microfiber fluxes, which reveals the opportunity to investigate the mechanism driving sinking of microfibers and microplastics into the deep open ocean.A novel environmentally benign method was developed for the simultaneous removal of sulphonamides and multiclass class of veterinary drugs using mesoporous nanofibers. Processing parameters which affect the removal efficiency, such as pH, initial analyte concentration, adsorbent dosage and contact time were studied. An optimised method was applied to a real wastewater samples collected from Daspoort Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), South Africa. Under optimum conditions, the removal efficiency of veterinary drugs from effluent and influent ranged from 35.24-94.57 ± 0.24 and 31.71-76.91 ± 0.65 mg g-1, respectively. The surface area, cumulative volume of pores and average pore diameter of the nanofibers were determined as 2402.62 ± 13.62 m2 g-1, 2.04 cm3 g-1 and 3.39 nm, respectively. The maximum adsorption capacity was ranged from 166 to 1000 mg g-1. The adsorption kinetics obeyed the pseudo-second-order rate equation suggesting that particle diffusion was the rate-limiting mechanism for adsorption of veterinary drugs on electrospun nanofibers.Small islands are vulnerable to climate change, and at the same time contribute to local and global environmental problems with the intensification of tourist activities. Whereas there are many studies on the resource requirements or environmental impacts of small islands, there are few efforts to integrate information that is often analysed separately. Metabolic analysis, beyond quantifying biophysical flows, studies how society transforms these flows to reproduce the identity of the whole. This study applies the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach, to analyse the environmental and economic performance of different economic activities in the Mediterranean island of Menorca (Spain). The openness of the metabolic system (observed in the dependence on imports) and externalization of environmental impact are illustrated using the examples of the cheese and tourist industry. The results show that a higher economic performance in terms of value added is associated with activities in industry and services with a larger dependence on imports of "external resources" - fuel for transportation, milk for cheese, seasonal workers and "paying capacity" of tourists.
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