Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet
having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health …

Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

The feasibility of in-silico techniques, together with the computational framework, has been
applied to predictive bioremediation aiming to clean-up contaminants, toxicity evaluation …

Lithobionts (rock-dwelling organisms) have been recognized as agents of aesthetic and
physico-chemical deterioration of stonework. In consequence, their removal from cultural …

Abstract Global Trimethoprim (TMP) and Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) occurrences in raw
wastewaters were systematically collected from the literature (n= 140 articles) in order to …

Microbial toxicity tests play an important role in various scientific and technical fields
including the risk assessment of chemical compounds in the environment. There is a large …

Organic micropollutants (OMPs) consist of widely used chemicals such as pharmaceuticals
and pesticides that can persist in surface and groundwaters at low concentrations (ng/L to …

Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the
detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or …

The evaluation of a chemical substance's persistence is key to understanding its
environmental fate, exposure concentration, and, ultimately, environmental risk. Traditional …

Microbial communities inhabiting soil-water-sediment continuum in coastal areas provide
important ecosystem services. Their adaptation in response to environmental stressors …