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Biotransport of persistent organic pollutants in the southern Hemisphere by invasive Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the rivers of northern Chilean Patagonia, a UNESCO biosphere reserve

Environment International, 2020
Biotransport is often associated with migration patterns of species, including large, anadromous salmonids. Several studies have reported biotransport of persistent organic pollutants in the Northern Hemisphere, but there is no published information on ...
Mónica Montory, Evelyn Habit, Pilar Fernandez, Joan O. Grimalt, Alan S. Kolok, Ricardo O. Barra, Javier Ferrer   +6 more
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Emerging Trends in the Remediation of Persistent Organic Pollutants Using Nanomaterials and Related Processes: A Review

Nanomaterials, 2022
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have become a major global concern due to their large amount of utilization every year and their calcitrant nature.
Salim Boulkhessaim, Amel Gacem, Samreen Heena Khan, Abdelfattah Amari, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Hamed N. Harharah, Abubakr M. Elkhaleefa, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Sami-ullah Rather, Hyun-Jo Ahn, Byong-Hun Jeon   +10 more
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Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill

Nature Communications, 2018
Microplastics are emerging ocean contaminants, but their fates in the ocean environment are poorly understood. Here the authors show that Antarctic krill digest micro plastics into nano plastics, thereby generating particles of a size that can cross ...
Amanda L. Dawson, So Kawaguchi, Catherine K. King, Kathy A. Townsend, Robert King, Wilhelmina M. Huston, Susan M. Bengtson Nash   +6 more
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MONITORING OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN THE SOIL OF THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC

Юг России: экология, развитие, 2014
The content of persistent organic pollutants in agricultural and residential areas of the Czech Republic. Elevated levels of PCBs in samples of agricultural use found near the city of Grozny and Argun.
I. Ya. Shakhtimirov, S. Kh. Isaeva, Kh. N. Askhabova, K. A-V. Shuipov   +3 more
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The Interplay of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mediterranean Diet in Association With the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. [PDF]

Diabetes Care
Yu G, Pang WW, Yang J, Guivarch C, Grewal J, Chen Z, Zhang C.   +6 more
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Mobility, turnover and storage of pollutants in soils, sediments and waters : achievements and results of the EU project AquaTerra : a review. [PDF]

, 2009
AquaTerra is one of the first environmental projects within the 6th Framework program by the European Commission. It began in June 2004 with a multidisciplinary team of 45 partner organizations from 13 EU countries, Switzerland, Serbia, Romania and ...
Gutierrez, A., Vogel, T., Smidt, H., Joziasse, J., Brouyère, S., Rijnaarts, H., de Weert, J., Slob, A., Frank, E., Kretzschmar, R., Van Gaans, P., Lair, G. J., Steidle, D., Moeckel, Claudia, Baran, N., Garrido, F., Klaver, G., Bellin, A., Barceló, D., Batlle Aguilar, J., van der Zaan, B. M., Petelet-Giraud, E., Meijer, Sandra, Broers, H. P., Barth, J. A. C., Gocht, T., Tas, N., Négrel, Ph., Von Tümpling, W., Marsman, A., Navarro, A., Gerritse, J., Jones, Kevin C., Bürger, C., Grathwohl, P., Chapman, A., Orban, Ph., Langenhoff, A., Fowler, H. J., Gerzabek, M. H., Darmendrail, D., Petrovic, M., Merly, C., Kolditz, O.   +43 more
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Hexabromocyclododecane and hexachlorocyclohexane: How lessons learnt have led to improved regulation [PDF]

, 2014
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2014 Taylor & Francis.The use of chemicals by society has many benefits but contamination of the environment is an unintended consequence.
Onogbosele, CO, Scrimshaw, MD
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Persistent organic pollutants and male reproductive health

Asian Journal of Andrology, 2014
Environmental contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are man-made bioaccumulative compounds with long half-lives that are found throughout the world as a result of heavy use in a variety of consumer products during the twentieth ...
Anne Vested, Aleksander Giwercman, Jens Peter Bonde, Gunnar Toft   +3 more
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Polychlorinated biphenyls fractioning assessment in aqueous bioremediation assy with phanerochaete chrysosporium [PDF]

, 2009
Thanks to growing environmental concerns in public opinion, bioremediation processes are more and more used to decontaminate soils from organic compounds.
Thannberger, Laurent, Sangely, Matthieu, Sablayrolles, Caroline, Sablayrolles, Caroline,, Vignoles-Montrejaud, Mireille, Vialle, Claire, Montréjaud-Vignoles, Mireille, Strehaiano, Pierre, Vignoles, Mireille, Sablayrolles, Caroline, C.   +9 more
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Supporting dataset and methods for serum concentrations of selected persistent organic pollutants measured in women with primary ovarian insufficiency

Data in Brief, 2019
The dataset presented in this article supports “Selected persistent organic pollutants associated with the risk of primary ovarian insufficiency in women” (Pan et al., 2019).
Wuye Pan, Shanshan Yin, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiaochen Ma, Chunming Li, Jianhong Zhou, Weiping Liu, Jing Liu   +7 more
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