The high environmental pollution load caused by the massive pollutant emissions and the accumulation of endogenous and cross-regional pollution has become an important obstacle to the current ecological civilization construction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) in China. Taking the YREB...

Air pollution is a major environmental issue worldwide. To investigate the changes of the atmospheric environment under the national policy, we analyzed 6 air pollutants (including PM_2.5, PM₁₀, SO₂, 8h-O₃, NO₂ and CO) of 13 prefecture-level cities from 2014 to 2021. A great difference was observed...

In a quasi-natural experiment of the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, the panel data of 211 cities in China from 2008 to 2017 are analyzed. The difference-in-difference method is adopted to analyze the influence and the internal mechanism of the pollution emissions in related cities after the...

To explore an effective method for comprehensive assessment of the effect of collaborative treatment on environmental pollution in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, this paper selects four categories of 22 assessment indicators: the driving force of collaborative treatment, the pressure ...

Some studies have examined the association between air pollution and semen quality. While it is less of evidence on the sperm quality after long-term air pollution exposure, especially the co-exposure of different air pollution components. Additionally, the role of DNA methylation in it hasn't been ...

Shanghai, a metropolitan city in China, has suffered from severe air pollution, especially PM_2.5, in the last few years. Up to now the contribution of local emission and regional transport to the formation of haze in Shanghai remains unclear. With an aim to characterize the mechanism of haze...

The inter-provincial transboundary area of the Taihu Lake Basin is characterized by a complex river network and reciprocating flow. Frequent environmental pollution events in recent years have become a major safety hazard for the water quality in the Taihu Lake Basin. There are few early warning...

Studies have shown that ambient air pollution is associated with obesity in adults, but epidemiological evidence is scarce for children and adolescents. This study sought to examine the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and obesity in a large population of children and ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important cardiovascular disease that causes a great burden of disease. However, there is limited evidence of a link between air pollution exposure and AF. This study aimed to explore the short-term association between air pollution and AF. We obtained daily...

The co-occurrence networks and interactions of bacterial communities in sediments are highly variable with environmental factors, which are vital to the nutrient biogeochemical cycle, pollutants biodegradation, and microbial community stability in lake ecosystems. Although pollution gradients...