Themed collection World Earth Day 2025

Oil spills frequently cause devastating impacts on coastal ecosystems and communities.

This review provides a critical overview of the literature on analytical techniques of MPs in environmental and food matrices, emphasizing the latest methods for MP separation, identification, and quantification.

Access to clean water is under threat due to population growth, climate change, and pollution, emphasizing the need for effective wastewater treatment.

Extensive water use leads to scarcity, adversely affecting human health, ecosystems, and resources. Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates these impacts via damage pathways, using characterization models to quantify effects.

The critical review scrutinizes some of the public statements on fluorinated gases and gives a detailed overview of the available alternatives to fluorinated gases used as refrigerants.

The critical review covers the applications, associated mechanisms, challenges, and prospects of magnetically recyclable nanophotocatalysts in photocatalysis-related processes.

Citrate synthase, a key enzyme involved in energy production, was inhibited after the hydrocoral Millepora alcicornis was exposed to seawater acidification for 30 days in a marine mesocosm system.

This paper provides an overview of the INGENIOUS (UnderstandING the sourcEs, traNsformations and fates of IndOor air pollUtantS) project, aiming to better understand air pollution in homes.

Polymer–iron oxide nanofiber composites.

GO@PS exhibit higher biotoxicity than individual graphene oxide and polystyrene primarily through oxidative stress in zebrafish embryos emphasizing the environmental and health risks.

Regardless of changes of ZnO NPs after interaction with the soil solutions, it remains active!

Open dumping and burning of solid waste are widely practiced in underserved communities lacking access to solid waste management facilities. The generation of microplastics from these sites has been overlooked.

A 1 km spatial resolution of vegetation emission inventory.

This study investigates the impact of forest fires on air quality in India's northeastern (NE) region, focusing on Guwahati, Tezpur, and Aizawl.

Metal speciation of volcanic aerosol from Mt Etna, an open vent, persistently degassing volcano in Europe.

In January 2022, gaseous elemental Hg (GEM) concentrations were continuously monitored at Syowa Station on East Ongul Island, located ∼4 km from the continent on the eastern coast of Lützow-Holm Bay in the Antarctic region.

This study contributes insights into the air quality challenges faced by two rapidly urbanising cities in Uganda and lays the groundwork for informed decision-making to protect public health and promote a sustainable environment.

Adsorption of different organic pollutants by three microplastics before and after weathering.

We describe a process for recycling scraps of graphene hollow fiber membranes into sorbent granules suitable for drinking water treatment.

When stormwater biofilters are not saturated, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) sorb to the air–water interface. The design of black carbon-amended stormwater biofilters for PFAS removal can be improved by preventing saturation.