Soil is an important environmental matrix to support the life of all organisms directly or
indirectly. Despite being the ultimate sink for all pollutants, it has been neglected for long …

The response of the terrestrial biosphere to warming remains one of the most poorly
understood and quantified aspects of the climate system. One way to test the behavior of the …

Microplastics have received widespread attention as an emerging global pollutant.
However, the research on the abundance and characteristics of microplastics entering the …

The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Highly expanded Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak
ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)–International Continental …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced via incomplete combustion of organics,
convey signatures of vegetation burned in the geologic past. New and published burn …

Humans have made such dramatic and permanent changes to Earth's landscapes that much
of it is now substantially and irreversibly altered from its preanthropogenic state. Remote …

Marine coastal areas of British Columbia, Canada are subject to a gradient of increasing
anthropogenic sources from pristine areas in the north to the more urbanised areas of the …

Analyses of sediment core samples are primary sources of historical pollution trends in
aquatic systems. Determining organic compounds, such as POPs, in the dated sediments …

Lake sediments are an important reservoir for toxic and hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs). Monitoring of PAHs in sediment is helpful to understand pollution …