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Science and the legal rights of nature
Laws that establish legal rights for nature are being pursued in a growing number of countries to protect the environment. The success or failure of these rights-of-nature laws... -
Relationship between heavy metal distribution in sediment samples and their...
Many studies assessing the quality of sediments and their pollution impact use monitoring data consisting predominantly of chemical indicators. Recently, ecotoxicity estimates... -
Biotreatment and production of value-added products from waste algal biomass
The rapidly increasing world population and industrialization are causing severe threats to environment and public health. Therefore, various treatment methods are used to treat... -
Low-cost automated GPS, electrical conductivity and temperature sensing...
Environmental and water quality monitoring are of utmost interest in a context where land use changes, uncontrolled agricultural practices, human settlements, tourism and other... -
Phosphorus retention and fractionation in an eutrophic wetland: A one-year...
This study aimed to evaluate the response of salt marshes to pulses of PO4 3--enriched water, with and without the presence of Phragmites australis. A one-year mesocosms... -
Partially Melted Crustal Xenoliths as a Window into Sub-Volcanic Processes:...
Crustal xenoliths from the Neogene Volcanic Province (NVP) of the Betic Cordillera, SE Spain, constitute an unusual suite of high-grade melt-bearing metapelitic rocks derived in... -
Water Stress and Crop Plants: A Sustainable Approach. Chapter 22: Drought...
Chapter 22 (Drought stress effect on woody tree yield) del libro "Water Stress and Crop Plants: A Sustainable Approach". -
Moving Denitrifying Bioreactors beyond Proof of Concept: Introduction to the...
Denitrifying bioreactors are organic carbon-filled excavations designed to enhance the natural process of denitrification for the simple, passive treatment of nitrate-nitrogen.... -
Monitoring Lipophilic Toxins in Seawater Using Dispersive Liquid-Liquid...
The use of dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) is proposed for the preconcentration of thirteen lipophilic marine toxins in seawater samples. For this purpose, 0.5... -
Efficient irrigation management can contribute to reduce soil CO2 emissions...
Irrigation water restrictions in the Mediterranean area have created a growing interest in water conservation. Apart from environmental and economic benefits by water savings,... -
Reducing nitrogen contamination from agricultural subsurface drainage with...
Reactive nitrogen leaving agricultural fields through subsurface drainage systems enters aquatic systems and contributes to eutrophication, habitat degradation and loss of... -
Design and performance of denitrification bioreactors for agricultural drainage
Denitrification drainage bioreactors are emerging as an innovative practice to address water quality concerns stemming from nitrate leaching from drained agricultural lands.... -
Spatial distribution and pollution evaluation in dry riverbeds affected by...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of pollution, sources and potential risk of heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Mn, Cd, Cr, Ni, Fe and Pb) and arsenic (As) in four dry... -
Enhanced biological denitrification in the cyclic rotating bed reactor with...
The performance of CRBR in denitrification with catechol carbon source is presented. The influence of inlet nitrate concentration, hydraulic retention time (HRT), media filling... -
New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022)
This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 21 taxa that belong to six Phyla: one Cnidaria, one Ctenophora, two Annelida, four Mollusca, two... -
A new approach to ascertain the sensitivity to water stress of different...
The sensitivity to water stress ofdifferentplant water indicators was evaluatedduring the latepostharvest period of extra-early nectarine trees growing in a commercial orchard... -
Using multi-actor labs as a tool to drive sustainability transitions in...
En este trabajo se utilizaron laboratorios multiactor (MAL), una forma de experimentos sociales del mundo real, en tres regiones costero-rurales de Francia (Charente Cuenca...