Wastewater reclamation and reuse is an increasing global project, while the reclamation treatment on wastewater does not completely remove all pollutants in water. The residual pollutants in reclaimed water would cause potential risk on human health and ecosystem safety during the long-term use. It ...

This paper aims to identify the atmospheric boundary layer turbulence structure and its effect on severe foggy haze events frequently occurring in Northern China. We use data collected from a ground eddy covariance system, meteorology tower, and a PM_2.5 collector in Baoding, China during December...

Overweight and obesity have become a global epidemic and concern, and contributed to at least 4.0 million deaths each year worldwide. However, current evidence regarding the impact of air pollution on body weight status remains inconsistent. We therefore conducted a systematic review and...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDEs) as brominated flame retardants, are a class of persistent organic pollutants with wide distribution, refractory and high biotoxicity, which have extremely high ecological risks. The research on the degradation pathway of PBDEs can reduce the pollution risk of...

Based on methods for screening priority pollutants available in China and other countries, this paper comprehensively reviews pollutants lists and relevant literature, establishes the procedures and principles for screening priority pollutants based on the soil environmental criteria of China and...

Soil pollution has become an important environmental issue worldwide. Various pollutants in soils may harm human health through the food chain. At present, the commonly used remediated methods mainly include thermal treatment, electrokinetic remediation, stabilization/solidification, soil washing,...

During heavy haze episodes, especially the cumulative stage (CS) of pollutants, strong turbulence intermittency and the resulting turbulence barrier effect (i.e., a phenomenon that turbulence at certain heights may disappear forming a laminar flow as if there is a barrier layer impeding the...

The turbulent transport of particles is normally assumed to be similar to the momentum (or heat) transport, both in observations and simulations. However, observations from the boundary layer reinforcement experiment conducted at the Pingyuan County Meteorological Bureau, Shandong Province, China,...

Biochar is a promising agent for wastewater treatment, soil remediation, and gas storage and separation. This review summarizes recent research development on biochar production and applications with a focus on the application of biochar technology in wastewater treatment. Different technologies...

Microbial immobilization technology (MIT) has been rapidly developed and used to remove pollutants from water/wastewater in recent years, owing to its high stability, rapid reaction rate, and high activity. Microbial immobilization carrier with low cost and high removal efficiency is the key of...