Themed collection Highlights from Environmental Science: Advances in 2024

Much is known about fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) in consumer products and FTOHs release to the environment. This Perspective provides some understanding of the release of FTOHs to the environment throughout the lifetime of consumer products.

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.

Monitoring the movement of plastic into marine food webs is central to understanding and mitigating the plastic pollution crisis.

A schematic representation showing the exploration of the limitations of conventional MNP removal techniques, highlighting the potential of biochar, electrospun fibrous constructs, and aerogels as sustainable and effective solutions for MNP removal.

This review includes insights on the impacts of azo dyes; the principles of bioremediation and its strategies, advantages, and limitations; and future prospects involving nanobioremediation.

Disputing the hypothesis that pyridine caused a mass mortality event in crustaceans along 70 km of English coastline.

REEs in the selected fly ash samples were quantified. Results indicate potentially extractable total REEs. Findings are useful for waste management and extraction routes development.

Estimating dietary exposure to polycyclic aromatic compounds as a results of migration from food-grade plastics.

Microplastic pollution constitutes a pressing global environmental issue impacting nearly every facet of human activity.

The use of treated effluent/wastewater (TWW) for crop irrigation is gaining prominence globally due to growing freshwater scarcity. However, there are still questions about the safety of such a practice.

Ground-based sensors were used to study HAB-associated particles in the atmosphere, and a drone was used to measure vertical profiles of wind.

Hydrazine sensing is essential as its a very toxic chemical that poses a major threat to human health and the environment.

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.

Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is an effective technique for assessing microplastic pollution. Here we present the development of a protocol to determine the amount of some common microplastics in complex environmental samples.

Degradation of PHBV in soil, quantified with pyrolysis GC-MS, was nutrient limited at increasing microplastic concentrations. Hydrophobicity increased while plant and soil microbial biomass decreased at higher soil microplastic concentrations.

This is the first report on biogenic synthesis of silver and copper-doped zinc oxide nanoflowers using Leucophyllum frutescens leaf extract for environmental and biomedical applications.

Addition of cationic surfactant in combination with powdered activated carbon significantly enhanced the removal of regulated PFAS during conventional coagulation/flocculation processes.

Magnetic amino-functionalized graphene oxide is a promising adsorbent for removing “forever chemicals” from water.

In this community driven project, hemp plants were used to extract PFAS from contaminated soil and hydrothermal liquefaction was used to degrade PFAS in the harvested hemp.