A critical insight into occurrence and fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their green remediation approaches

A Kumari, V Upadhyay, S Kumar - Chemosphere, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Over the last century, the tremendous growth in industrial activities particularly in the sectors
of pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and the reckless application of fertilizers and …

[HTML][HTML] Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the Canadian environment: A review of sampling techniques, strategies and instrumentation

JME Ahad, RW Macdonald, JL Parrott, Z Yang… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
A wide variety of sampling techniques and strategies are needed to analyze polycyclic
aromatic compounds (PACs) and interpret their distributions in various environmental media …

Contamination pattern and risk assessment of polar compounds in snow melt: an integrative proxy of road runoffs

L Maurer, E Carmona, O Machate… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
To assess the contamination and potential risk of snow melt with polar compounds, road and
background snow was sampled during a melting event at 23 sites at the city of Leipzig and …

Vegetation type and age drive changes in soil properties, nitrogen, and carbon sequestration in urban parks under cold climate

HM Setälä, G Francini, JA Allen, N Hui… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
Urban green spaces provide ecosystem properties fundamental to the provision of
ecosystem services, such as the sequestration of carbon and nutrients and serving as a …

[HTML][HTML] Dissolved and suspended forms of metals and metalloids in snow cover of megacity: partitioning and deposition rates in Western Moscow

D Vlasov, J Vasil'chuk, N Kosheleva, N Kasimov - Atmosphere, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Concentrations and ratio of dissolved and suspended forms of metals and metalloids (MMs)
in snow cover and their deposition rates from the atmosphere in the western part of Moscow …

The ability of selected filter materials in removing nutrients, metals, and microplastics from stormwater in biofilter structures

K Kuoppamäki, S Pflugmacher Lima, C Scopetani… - 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Creative solutions to manage stormwater include ecologically based designs, such as
biofilter structures. A laboratory experiment was established to study the ability of biofilters to …

A global comparison of surface soil characteristics across five cities: a test of the urban ecosystem convergence hypothesis

RV Pouyat, ID Yesilonis, M Dombos, K Szlavecz… - Soil …, 2015‏ - journals.lww.com
As part of the Global Urban Soil Ecology and Education Network and to test the urban
ecosystem convergence hypothesis, we report on soil pH, organic carbon (OC), total …

Urban parks provide ecosystem services by retaining metals and nutrients in soils

H Setälä, G Francini, JA Allen, A Jumpponen… - Environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Urban greenspaces provide ecosystem services like more natural ecosystems do. For
instance, vegetation modifies soil properties, including pH and soil organic matter content …

Evaluating the suitability of different environmental samples for tracing atmospheric pollution in industrial areas

A Francová, V Chrastný, H Šillerová, M Vítková… - Environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Samples of lichens, snow and particulate matter (PM 10, 24 h) are used for the source
identification of air pollution in the heavily industrialized region of Ostrava, Upper Silesia …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory melting of late-winter urban snow samples: the magnitude and dynamics of releases of heavy metals and PAHs

A Vijayan, H Österlund, J Marsalek… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2019‏ - Springer
Laboratory snow melting experiments were conducted with actual late-winter snow samples,
collected just before the final snowmelt, in two similar northern Swedish cities, Luleå and …