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PM2.5 Chemical Composition and Geographic Origin of Air Masses in Mabopane, South Africa

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Air pollution is a major global threat to health. The study aimed to analyze the chemical composition of PM2.5 in Mabopane, South Africa, and to identify the contribution of transported particulate pollution sources using backward air transport cluster analysis.
Mandla Bhuda, Peter Molnár, Johan Boman, Joyce Shirinde, Janine Wichmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long-term trends, health impacts, and economic costs of PM₂.₅ in Khorramabad, Iran (2014-2023). [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Fouladi-Fard R, Bayat M, Karami M, Rahimi NR, Azimi F, Kamarahie B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vegetation type mediates how urbanization reshapes the structure, function, and spatial variation of soil food webs

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Urbanization represents one of the major anthropogenic alterations of the Earth's surface, with significant impacts on biodiversity and its functions. Soil animals are essential components of biodiversity, and their trophic interactions play integral roles in the ...
Haifeng Yao, Zhipeng Li, Saichao Zhang, Shasha Hu, Huayuan Shangguan, Xin Sun, Anton M. Potapov   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Particulate matter levels and children's lung function in a rural cohort near a drying saline lake. [PDF]

Environ Epidemiol
Guo F, Kamai EM, Eckel SP, Barahona DD, Olmedo L, Bejarano E, Torres C, Zuidema C, Seto E, Farzan SF, Johnston JE.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mobile consumers influence the shoreward edge of intertidal seagrass ecosystems

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Ecological paradigms suggest that the environmentally stressful edge of a habitat is determined by physical factors. The work finds that, counter to these paradigms, an environmentally stressful edge can also be impacted by biotic interactions and are more complex than suggested.
Stephanie R. Valdez, Carter S. Smith, Catherine L. Brenner, Avery B. Paxton, Brian R. Silliman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cement Industry Pollution Mitigation: A Comprehensive Review on Reducing Environmental and Health Impacts. [PDF]

Toxics
Hosen K, Bărbulescu A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Composition and Free Radical Content During Saharan Dust Episode in SE Poland. [PDF]

Molecules
Cieniek B, Płoch D, Brewka J, Kluska K, Stefaniuk I, Kasprzyk I.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Air Pollution and Global Pediatric Pneumococcal Disease. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis
Bastug KA, Thielen BK, Moschovis PP, Sam-Agudu NA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source