A radionuclide-dated (210 Pb and 137 Cs) sediment core collected from Hampstead Pond
No. 1, a North London lake, was used to provide novel data on the historical accumulation of …

Mid-to-late Holocene high-resolution testate amoebae-derived water table reconstructions
from two peatlands in the North of Ireland are presented. The proxy climate records are …

Analyses of plant macrofossils, testate amoebae and humification have been carried out on
a 2800-year core from Tore Hill Moss, a raised bog in the Strathspey region of Scotland. All …

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

Plastics are a recent particulate material in Earth's history. Because of plastics persistence
and wide-range presence, it has a great potential of being a global age marker and …

Human impacts on Earth are now so great that they have led to the concept of a new
geological epoch defined by this global human influence: the Anthropocene. While not …

While the sediment records of upland lakes are known to be valuable natural archives of
depositional changes, recent studies in the UK have shown that full basin records of trace …

Sediment cores were taken from six sites across the UK. Apart from Banbury Reservoir in
London, all the other sites are relatively remote lakes. Trace elements Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr, Ni …

Abstract The Mpumalanga Lake District (MLD) of South Africa hosts a regionally unique
cluster of water bodies of great importance for wetland biodiversity. It is also located close to …

The release of toxic atmospheric pollutants since the Industrial Revolution is a major global
challenge, driving climate change and damaging human health. Spatial health inequalities …