Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Produced water from oil and gas exploration is one of the major challenges posed by the
energy sector due to the large volumes generated daily and the potential hazardous effects …

The use of microalgae is nowadays recognized to be an efficient and eco-friendly strategy
for the removal of contaminants from wastewater. Thanks to their versatility, these …

Advances in water treatment technologies paired with potential restrictions on oil and gas
(O&G) produced water disposal could incentivize the beneficial reuse of treated produced …

Drinking water supplies of cities are exposed to potential contamination arising from land
use and other anthropogenic activities in local and distal source watersheds. Because water …

There is considerable debate about the sustainability of the hydraulic fracturing (HF) water
cycle in North America. Recently, this debate has expanded to China, where HF activities …

Self-supporting electrodes have triggered great interests in improving electro-Fenton (EF)
system for degradation of refractory organic pollutants. In this work, a novel self-supporting …

Uranium mill tailings (UMTs) are one critical source of environmental U pollution. Leaching
test has been extensively used to reveal U release capacity and mechanism from UMTs …

This study assesses the health risks associated with drinking water contamination using
variation in the timing and location of shale gas development (SGD). Our novel dataset …

Shale gas has been developed as an alternative to conventional energy worldwide,
resulting in a large amount of shale gas fracturing flowback and produced water (FPW) …