Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways

RW Macdonald, LA Barrie, TF Bidleman… - Science of the Total …, 2000 - Elsevier
Recent studies of contaminants under the Canadian Northern Contaminants Program (NCP)
have substantially enhanced our understanding of the pathways by which contaminants …

A critical review on the formation, fate and degradation of the persistent organic pollutant hexachlorocyclohexane in water systems and waste streams

S Adithya, RS Jayaraman, A Krishnan, R Malolan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The environmental impacts of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is an increasingly
prominent topic in the scientific community. POPs are stable chemicals that are accumulated …

Differential toxicity and environmental fates of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers

KL Willett, EM Ulrich, RA Hites - Environmental science & …, 1998 - ACS Publications
The differential environmental fates and toxicities of the various hexachlorocyclohexane
(HCH) isomers including lindane and isomers in the technical mixture will be the focus of …

Anthropogenic disturbance of the terrestrial water cycle

CJ Vörösmarty, D Sahagian - Bioscience, 2000 - academic.oup.com
TERRESTRIAL WATER CYCLE water use between 1800 and 1980, when the global
population increased by a factor of four (Haub 1994). Aggregate irretrievable water losses …

The impact of agricultural chemical inputs on environment: global evidence from informetrics analysis and visualization

L Zhang, C Yan, Q Guo, J Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper identifies and analyzes salient research frontiers, research hotspots and high-
frequency terms using aggregated and multiple-source literature records related to the topic …

Global distribution and budget of PCBs and HCB in background surface soils: implications for sources and environmental processes

SN Meijer, WA Ockenden, A Sweetman… - … science & technology, 2003 - ACS Publications
This paper presents data from a survey of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and
hexachlorobenzene (HCB) concentrations in 191 global background surface (0− 5 cm) soils …

Passive air sampling of PCBs, PBDEs, and organochlorine pesticides across Europe

FM Jaward, NJ Farrar, T Harner… - … science & technology, 2004 - ACS Publications
This study presents concurrently sampled ambient air data for a range of persistent organic
pollutants at the continental scale. This was achieved using a passive air sampling system …

Factors influencing the distribution of lindane and other hexachlorocyclohexanes in the environment

K Walker, DA Vallero, RG Lewis - Environmental Science & …, 1999 - ACS Publications
This review examines the potential for γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) to be transformed
into other isomers of HCH. HCH residues are among the most widely distributed and …

Global technical hexachlorocyclohexane usage and its contamination consequences in the environment: from 1948 to 1997

YF Li - Science of the total environment, 1999 - Elsevier
Global technical 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) usage data are surveyed from
1948 to 1997. In order to fill both temporal and spatial gaps of the usage data, registration …

What do we know about the production and release of persistent organic pollutants in the global environment?

L Li, C Chen, D Li, K Breivik, G Abbasi… - Environmental Science …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Information on the global production and environmental releases of persistent organic
pollutants (POPs) is of critical importance for regulating and eliminating these chemical …