Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are
characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental …

During passive air sampling, the amount of a chemical taken up in a sorbent from the air
without the help of a pump is quantified and converted into an air concentration. In an …

In the last decades, research regarding the dynamics of pesticides has grown, even in
remote regions. Due to long-range atmospheric transport, environmental persistence and …

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are widely distributed along the world and their levels
in surface waters may pose a risk to human health due to consumption of contaminated …

High mountain lakes are extreme freshwater ecosystems and excellent sentinels of current
global change. They are likely among the most comparable ecosystems across the world …

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been produced for almost a century and some of
them are still used, even after they have been proved to be toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative …

Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) passive samplers were deployed in upland surface waters
and the overlying atmosphere during May and June 2012, to determine the transport and …

A special initiative in the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Network was
implemented to provide information on new and emerging persistent organic pollutants …

The occurrence and seasonal distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and
legacy and current-use pesticides (CUPs) in air were characterized around the Mar Menor …

The Ñuble River flows through an agricultural area in the central zone of Chile in which
different types of fruits are grown. The objective of this study was to identify the levels and …