Long-term exposure to air pollutants is likely to be associated with mental disorders, but relevant studies remain limited and inconsistent, and evidence to assess causality is particularly lacking, especially in developing countries. In addition, there are few studies on the role of physical...

The rational design of a novel and environmentally friendly photocatalytic composite for persistent pollutant removal, energy production and catalytic applications have attracted widespread interest. In this study, the new composite composed of KOH-modified biochar and g-C₃N₄ with different...

Indoor air pollution is associated with childhood asthma but the molecular mechanism remains unclear. We aimed to explore the relationship between indoor air pollution and pediatric asthma, and the potential molecular mechanism. The serum level of miR-155 was measured by real-time qPCR in 180...

Characteristics of the spatial and temporal distribution of air pollutants may reveal the cause of air pollution, especially for large regions where the anthropogenic pollutant emission is concentrated. This study addresses this issue by focusing on Shandong province, which has the highest air ...

Benefiting from the pollution controls implemented by the Chinese government, the concentrations of PM_2.5, SO₂, NO₂ and CO showed a significant decrease in Beijing during 2013-2017. In this study, an observation-based method was employed to estimate the relative contributions of regional transport...

Residential combustion emission contributes significantly to ambient and indoor air pollution in China; however, this pollution source is poorly characterized and often overlooked in national pollution control policies. Few studies, and even fewer field-based investigations, have evaluated ...

The removals of arsenic and selenium pollutants are always urgent desires for the water security. In this study, both sorption and catalysis strategies were combined for the effective removals of As(V) and Se(VI) over magnetic graphene oxide sheets (GOs)-oxidized carbon nanotubes (OCNTs) hydrogels. ...

Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) technology is an important treatment method of organic pollutants because of its advantages of short time-consuming, fast reaction rate, good process sealing, small secondary pollution, high removal rate and so on.In the study, nitrogen removal and...

Household coal combustion is identified to be the second largest emission source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in China. In this study, ferroferric oxide (Fe₃O₄) was used as a coal burning additive to reduce PAHs emission from coal combustion in a household coal stove. The results...

Environmental impact of pollutants can be analyzed effectively by acquiring fish behavioral signals in water with biological behavior sensors. However, a variety of factors, such as the complexity of biological organisms themselves, the device error and the environmental noise, may compromise the...