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Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance Despite growing evidence of the deleterious effects on ecological and human health, little is known regarding the global occurrence of pharmaceuticals in rivers.
J. Wilkinson +126 more
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More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
Science Advances, 2021 More than 1000 rivers account for most plastic emissions, ranging from small urban drains to large rivers. Plastic waste increasingly accumulates in the marine environment, but data on the distribution and quantification of riverine sources required for ...
L. Meijer +4 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2022 Land-based plastic waste, carried to the sea through rivers, is considered a main source of marine plastic pollution. However, most plastics that leak into the environment never make it into the ocean.
T. V. van Emmerik +4 more
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The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers
Science, 2021 No missing sink Estimates of the flux of microplastics from rivers, in the context of the mass of plastic that has been observed in the ocean, have made it appear that a large, unidentified sink of plastics must exist there. Weiss et al.
Lisa Weiss +7 more
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Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the annual patterns of ecosystem productivity and respiration for more than 200 rivers, comparing the magnitude and phenology of river metabolic regimes with annual estimates from more than 150
E. Bernhardt +18 more
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The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview
Water, 2021 The biological assessment of rivers i.e., their assessment through use of aquatic assemblages, integrates the effects of multiple-stressors on these systems over time and is essential to evaluate ecosystem condition and establish recovery measures.
M. Feio +28 more
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An overview of the hydrology of non‐perennial rivers and streams
WIREs Water, 2021 Non‐perennial rivers and streams are ubiquitous on our planet. Although several metrics have been used to statistically group or compare streamflow characteristics, there is currently no widely used definition of how many days or over what reach length ...
M. Shanafield +3 more
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Civil Revolution: User Experiences with British Columbia’s Online Court
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2022 British Columbia’s new Civil Resolution Tribunal [CRT] is a primarily online dispute resolution system that has attracted international attention for its innovative approach. But so far there has been little independent research on the effectiveness of
Katie Sykes +4 more
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Anthropogenic Transformation and the Possibility of Renaturalising Small Rivers and their Valleys in Cities – Łódź and Lviv Examples [PDF]
, 2015 Rivers used to serve important functions in the development of cities, and river valleys are a part of the urban space. Regardless of several centuries of anthropogenic influences large rivers and their valleys have remained the dominant elements of the ...
Kobojek, Elżbieta
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021 INTRODUCTION: the knowledge of epidemiologic and clinical variables in patients with SARS- CoV-2 infection provides evidence and lessons that are useful for the pandemic response, with consideration of National and sub-National variations.
Datonye Alasia +14 more
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