With the development of industrial production and continuous demand for chemicals, a large
volume of wastewater containing phenols was discharged into the aquatic environment …

Abstract To implement the Soil Protection Act of 1986, the Dutch Ministry of Housing,
Physical Planning, and Environment has recently proposed a list of soil quality reference …

A method is presented for developing water quality criteria (WQC) for type I narcotic
chemicals in general and PAHs in particular. The criteria can be applied to any individual or …

Room‐temperature ionic liquids (ILs) are considered to be green chemicals that may
replace volatile organic solvents currently used by industry. However, IL effects on aquatic …

Chironomus tentans is a representative of a group of insects known as the midges, which
are widely distributed in freshwater sediments during their larval stage of development …

Presenting effective, practicable strategies modeled from ultramodern technologies and
framed by the critical insights of 78 field experts, this vastly expanded Second Edition offers …

Love Canal. Exxon Valdez. Times Beach. Sacramento River Spill. Amoco Cadiz. Seveso.
Every area of the world has been affected by improper waste disposal and chemical spills …

Ionic liquids (ILs) are innovative solvents that can be tuned for their specific application
through the selection, or functionalization, of the cation and the anion. Although the cation …

The rationale and conceptual basis for the use of sediment toxicity assays are discussed in
relationship to their use in sediment evaluations employing faunal surveys, toxicity assays …

In this study quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) were calculated between
hydrophobicity of a group of organic chemicals with anaesthetic potency and toxicity …