Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. A review

AT Lawal - Cogent Environmental Science, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The recent literature describing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air, water, soil
and sediment, waste sludge, biomonitoring, toxicity, are reviewed. Aspects of sampling …

Persistent organic pollutants in the polar regions and the Tibetan Plateau: A review of current knowledge and future prospects

X Wang, C Wang, T Zhu, P Gong, J Fu, Z Cong - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to their low temperatures, the Arctic, Antarctic and Tibetan Plateau are known as the
three polar regions of the Earth. As the most remote regions of the globe, the occurrence of …

Spheroidal carbonaceous fly ash particles provide a globally synchronous stratigraphic marker for the Anthropocene

NL Rose - Environmental Science & Technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Human impacts on Earth are now so great that they have led to the concept of a new
geological epoch defined by this global human influence: the Anthropocene. While not …

The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of anthropogenic pollution released from the permafrost: Part I. Case study of Antarctica

J Potapowicz, D Szumińska, M Szopińska… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a review of information related to the influence of potential permafrost
degradation on the environmental fate of chemical species which are released and stored …

One century sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, mercury and trace elements in the Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau

X Wang, H Yang, P Gong, X Zhao, G Wu, S Turner… - Environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
Sediments from a remote lake of northeastern Tibetan Plateau were analyzed for polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and trace metals. USEPA priority PAHs, ranged from 11 in …

[PDF][PDF] Global environmental distribution and human health effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

A Ramesh, AE Archibong, DB Hood… - … trends of persistent …, 2011 - researchgate.net
The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, coal ash spill in Eastern Tennessee,
and wildfires near Flagstaff, Arizona, and in California, share one thing in common. These …

[HTML][HTML] Organic contamination of beached plastic pellets in the South Atlantic: Risk assessments can benefit by considering spatial gradients

D Gorman, FT Moreira, A Turra, FR Fontenelle… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Microplastics are important vectors for the transport and accumulation of persistent organic
contaminants in coastal and marine environments. We determined the concentration of …

Sediment core records and impact factors of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Chinese lakes

Y Xia, Y Zhang, Q Ji, X Cheng, X Wang, CE Sabel… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lake sediment is a natural sink for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAH
sedimentation characteristics and their impact factors of Chinese lakes have mainly been …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in wild marine organisms from South China Sea: Occurrence, sources, and human health implications

CL Ke, YG Gu, Q Liu, LD Li, HH Huang, N Cai… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
Concentrations of 16 US EPA priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were
measured in 15 marine wild organism species from South China Sea. The concentration …

Historical records and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediment from a representative plateau lake …

H Yuan, E Liu, E Zhang, W Luo, L Chen, C Wang, Q Lin - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
The PAH and OCP concentrations in sediment cores collected from a deep lake were
measured and evaluated chronologically. The results indicated that the PAH and OCP …