The efficiency of urban public transport and its impact on environmental sustainability by Joaquín Sánchez Toledano, Beatriz Duarte Monedero, Sandra Flores - Ureba, Clara Simón de Blas

“…Promoting and popularly developing urban transport improves environmental sustainability by reducing traffic congestion and air pollution. In the last decade, bus and metro modes, in addition to being the most in-demand, have been the most utilized to offer a practical and sustainable public transport system.In Spain, public transport services are bus, the mode of transport designed as a priority over metro. …”
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Reverse Osmosis Coupled with Ozonation for Clean Water Recovery from an Industrial Effluent: Technical and Economic Analyses by Ivette Montero-Guadarrama, Claudia Muro Urista, Gabriela Roa-Morales, Edith Erialia Gutiérrez Segura, Vianney Díaz-Blancas, Germán Eduardo Dévora-Isiordia, Jesús Álvarez-Sánchez

“…The physicochemical characteristics of the effluent exposed the polluted wastewater with sodium chloride salts and colourants, predominating a mixture of tartrazine, Red 40, and brilliant blue from the synthesis of food additives. …”
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Development of Antimicrobial Biopolymer Film Incorporated with a Mixture of Sodium Lactate and Diacetate and Studying its Efficacy Against Listeria monocytogenes and Microbiologica... by Katherine Sierra, Luis Guzman, Vianca Tashiguano, Micah T. Black, Payten Leeds, Jakob Doster, Laura J. Garner, Sungeun Cho, Yucheng Peng, Amit Morey

“…Food packaging is a major contributor to environmental pollution and is a concern among customers who are pushing the food industry towards innovative, sustainable, and biodegradable plastic-alternative packaging materials. …”
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Coupling Driving Force–Pressure–State–Impact–Response–Management Framework with Hydrochemical Data for Groundwater Management on Sithonia Peninsula, Greece by Eleni Parastatidou, Maria Margarita Ntona, Nerantzis Kazakis, Fotios-Konstantinos Pliakas

“…Additionally, the fractured rock aquifer develops preferential flow paths to pollutants through preexisting faults, which influence groundwater quality. …”
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Spectroscopic aspects of underwater digital holography of plankton by Victor Dyomin, Igor Polovtsev, Alexandra Davydova, Nikolai Kirillov

“…The spectroscopic study of plankton allows determining the pollution in the plankton habitat at early stages. …”
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Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure, Associated Functional Role, and Water Health in Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants by Inderjeet Tyagi, Kaomud Tyagi, Faheem Ahamad, Rakesh Bhutiani, Vikas Kumar

“…The biochemical oxygen demand was 7–12 times, chemical oxygen demand (COD) was 6 times, and total suspended solids (TSS) was 3.5 times higher in the wastewater than what the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in New Delhi, India, allows as standard discharge. …”
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Numerical Study on the Thermal Performance of Trombe Wall for Passive Solar Building in Semiarid Climate by Maher Dhahri, Nima Khalilpoor, Hana Aouinet, Alibek Issakhov, Habib Sammouda, Sampath Emani

“…Therefore, a practical solution such as using renewable energy sources can be considered to reduce energy costs and pollutants. In addition, architecture principles must be varied to utilize passive solar energy and also to reduce energy losses. …”
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Bryophytes as Indicators of Disturbance in One of the Last Remnants of the Mountain Forests of El Oro Province, Ecuador by Ángel Benítez, Richard Nagua, Jefferson Medina, Gregorio Lapo, Erika Yangua-Solano, Rolando Andrade-Hidalgo

“…Bryophytes are highly dependent on their external environments because they are sensitive to environmental changes related to disturbance, fragmentation, air pollution, and climate change. The richness and composition of bryophytes in remnants of primary and secondary forests were analyzed, where the richness and cover were recorded on trunk bases of 120 trees. …”
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Selenium-Modified Biochar Synergistically Achieves the Safe Use of Selenium and the Inhibition of Heavy Metal Cadmium by Wanjing Wang, Haiyan Jiang, Zebin Tan, Luyao Yu, Jie Chen, Qingliang Xiao, Qinlei Rong, Chunhuo Zhou

“…To address cadmium pollution in China’s cultivated land, chitosan, inorganic and organic selenium were used to modify rice husk charcoal for cadmium inhibition. …”
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A Data-Driven Review of the Financial Performance and Environmental Compliance of Shariah-Compliant Businesses by Hassan Syed, Rahmi Deniz Özbay, Klemens Katterbauer, Sema Yılmaz Genç

“…As a result, there has been an increase in the divestment of firms that use forced labor, lack diversity in their workforces, and operate in highly polluting sectors. Islamic banking incorporates Shariah law's guiding principles, which place a heavy emphasis on protecting the environment and advancing society. …”
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Spatial Variation of Arsenic in Soil, Irrigation Water, and Plant Parts: A Microlevel Study by M. S. Kabir, M. A. Salam, D. N. R. Paul, M. I. Hossain, N. M. F. Rahman, Abdullah Aziz, M. A. Latif

“…Arsenic pollution became a great problem in the recent past in different countries including Bangladesh. …”
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A Combined Computational and Experimental Study on Nanoparticle Transport and Partitioning in the Human Trachea and Upper Bronchial Airways by Jiawei Ma, Wei-Chung Su, Yi Chen, Yidan Shang, Jingliang Dong, Jiyuan Tu, Lin Tian

“…Abstract In the past few decades, the transport and deposition of aerosol in the human respiratory tract has been a crucial area of research, resulting in the identification of the toxicity pathways of inhaled pollutants and facilitating the design of efficient drug delivery systems for targeted treatment. …”
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Application of DEA technique in SWOT analysis of oily sludge management using fuzzy data by H. Borgheipour, Z. Moghaddas, M. Abbassi, N. Abbaszadeh Tehrani

“…The proper management of oily sludge from petroleum products storage tanks is necessary because inappropriate methods for dredging of tanks may result in high costs and increased environmental pollution. The purpose of the current study is to rank the strategies outlined by strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis using data envelopment analysis model, which provides enriched insights into management of waste from dredging of tanks. …”
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The panel threshold analysis of digitalization on manufacturing industry’s green total factor productivity by Lu Liu, Yulong Xin, Bei Liu, Yuankui Pang, Weiran Kong

“…The empirical results show that: (1) Digitalization has a significant threshold impact on IGTFP, and the research results are still robust according to changing the threshold variable algorithm and carrying on a Winsorize test. (2) Industry technological innovation (ITI) plays a threshold role in the process of digitalization impact on IGTFP. (3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact mechanism varies depending on differentiated industry factor intensity and industry pollution degree. Therefore, policymakers should formulate differentiated industry digitalization strategies.…”
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Analysis of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Decisions in Amasya Province within the Framework of EIA Regulation and Examination of its Relationship with Economic Indicators by Nusret Çoban, Ayla Bilgin

“…In order to prevent environmental pollution and to utilize natural resources more efficiently, environmentally friendly policies have been developed in our country in accordance with international developments. …”
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Kinetic Modeling Study of the Industrial Sulfur Recovery Process for Operating Condition Optimization by Shan Huang, Zhaohui Teng, Lisheng Zhang, Qulan Zhou, Na Li

“…Our research provides a way to improve the sulfur recovery process in the industry, and it can be helpful to reduce pollution emissions and improve economic performance.…”
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Natural resources heterogeneity and environmental sustainability in G20 nations: post-COP28 analysis by Abdulrahman Alomair, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Abdulaziz S. Al Naim

“…Interestingly, natural gas provides diverging direct and indirect impacts on both pollutants. More so, green policies and environmental taxes support promoting environmental sustainability. …”
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Pilot-Scale Removal of Trace Steroid Hormones and Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Municipal Wastewater Using a Heterogeneous Fenton’s Catalytic Process by George Tangyie Chi, John Churchley, Katherine D. Huddersman

“…The pollution of water sources by endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) is a growing concern, as conventional municipal wastewater treatment systems are not capable of completely removing these contaminants. …”
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Descriptions anatomiques et hypothèses étiologiques des déformations des mains et des pieds observées chez les chimpanzés de Sebitoli (Parc national de Kibale, Ouganda) by Pauline Couchoud, Marie Cibot, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Sabrina Krief

“…L’objectif de notre étude est de représenter ces déformations des membres afin de distinguer les anomalies d’origine humaine (pièges, pollution environnementale…) de celles issues d’un contexte naturel (agressions lors de conflits, chute accidentelle, arthrose…). …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Aerosol Optical Properties over Dibrugarh City in the North-Eastern Indian Region during 2018–2021 by Akshansha Chauhan, Shukla Acharjee, Ramesh P. Singh, Brent Holben

“…The change in the aerosol properties may cause short and long-term impacts, the knowledge of such changes is useful in the estimation of the pollution sources of any region. We have carried out the analysis of the aerosols’ optical and radiative properties using AERONET station data from 2018 to 2021 in Dibrugarh City. …”
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