T he presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, when 152 countries agreed on a comprehensive global ban. The ...

Scientists from the Henan Academy of Sciences recently developed a new technique for the determination of hydroxyl polycyclic ...

A prospective cohort study found that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls was an independent risk factor for cardiovascular ...

POPs – Persistent Organic Pollutants – pose a significant risk to human health and the environment around the entire globe. They are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation ...

Scientists clarify key indicator of chemical activity: the correlation between liquid properties and the generation of active bubbles explained. Active bubbles, also known as acoustic bubbles, show ...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a groundbreaking initiative to address the challenge of hazardous ...

The protocols limit the emissions of sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides and persistent organic pollutants. In 1999 the Gothenburg Protocol was signed by 49 countries of the Northern Hemisphere and ...

Areas of research include global climate change, coral reef ecosystems, biogeochemistry, persistent organic pollutants, and the environmental transformations of natural and anthropogenic trace ...