China is one of the largest producers and consumers of pesticides in the world today. Along
with the widespread use of pesticides and industrialization, there is a growing concern for …

City clusters are made up of groups of large, nearly contiguous cities with many adjoining
satellite cities and towns. Over the past two decades, such clusters have played a leading …

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the
latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the …

Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), such as perfluoro-octanesulfonate (PFOS) and related
compounds, have recently been identified in the environment. PFOS, the terminal …

Food consumption is an important route of human exposure to organochlorines (OCs). In
order to assess the potential health risks associated with these contaminants due to fish …

This review summarizes and analyzes available data in the literature (mostly after 2000) on
the occurrence of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its main metabolites …

In this study, persistent organic pollutants were quantified in sediments, subsurface
seawater, sea-surface microlayer and twenty-four biota species collected at two separate …

India is challenged by the nexus of environmental degradation and economic growth amidst
the paradoxical coexistence of poverty and affluence in their multifarious dimensions. These …

Rapid economic growth in South China (including Guangdong Province, Hong Kong, and
Macau), particularly within the Pearl River Delta region, has resulted in severe pollution of …

DDT remains in use for malaria control in South Africa. We quantified DDTs in aquatic bird
eggs from the highly biodiverse northern KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa where …