A large-scale monitoring program, the Asia Soil and Air Monitoring Program (Asia-SAMP),
was conducted in five Asian countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and …

The past several decades have seen increasing concern regarding the wide distribution of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in environmental matrices. Primary toxicological …

The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, coal ash spill in Eastern Tennessee,
and wildfires near Flagstaff, Arizona, and in California, share one thing in common. These …

The contamination and outflow of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in
the Chinese Northern Plain, a region with a total area of 300 000 km2 and a high PAH …

Northeast Asia including China, Korea, and Japan is one of the world's largest fossil fuel
consumption regions. Seoul, Korea, is a megacity in Northeast Asia. Its emissions of air …

A potential receptor influence function (PRIF) model, based on air mass forward trajectory
calculations, was applied to simulate the atmospheric transport and outflow of polycyclic …

The Daesan industrial complex is one of the largest petrochemical and oil refinery industrial
complexes in South Korea, which is believed to be a major source of polycyclic aromatic …

Air pollution in rural China has often been ignored, especially for the less developed west
China. Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were measured monthly at 11 …

A regression model based on the provincial energy consumption data was developed to
calculate the monthly proportions of residential energy consumption compared to the total …

Environmental pollution by man-made persistent organic chemicals (POCs) has been a
serious global issue for over half a century. POCs are prevalent in air, water, soil, and …