Restoring the unrestored: strategies for restoring global land during the UN decade on ecosystem restoration (UN-DER)

PC Abhilash - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Restoring the health of degraded land is critical for overall human development as land is a
vital life-supporting system, directly or indirectly influencing the attainment of the UN …

Microbiome based approaches for the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): A current perception

R Kaur, S Gupta, V Tripathi, A Chauhan, D Parashar… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) pollution is primarily driven by their
release into the air through various combustion processes, including burning fossil fuels …

Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration

JM Robinson, R Hodgson, SL Krauss… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Microbiomics is the science of characterizing microbial community structure, function, and
dynamics. It has great potential to advance our understanding of plant–soil–microbe …

Prospects of emerging PAH sources and remediation technologies: insights from Africa

K Sam, AP Onyena, N Zabbey, CK Odoh… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Remediation of polluted environmental media is critical to realization of the goals of the
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNDER) project. Many natural-resource …

Effective degradation of lindane and its isomers by dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma: Synergistic effects of various reactive species

Y Liu, J Duan, Q Zhou, L Zhu, N Liu, Z Sun - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Lindane is a broad-spectrum organochlorine insecticide which has been included in the
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) list together with its two hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) …

Revelation of bioremediation approaches for hexachlorocyclohexane degradation in soil

A Roy, P Vajpayee, S Srivastava… - World Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
This review elucidates different bioremediation approaches used for degradation of HCH
from contaminated sites. It highlights the significance of degradative pathways, microbial …

Characterization of hexachlorocyclohexane isomer dehydrochlorination by LinA1 and LinA2 using multi-element compound-specific stable isotope analysis

Y Liu, J Fu, L Wu, S Kümmel, I Nijenhuis… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dehydrochlorination is one of the main (thus far discovered) processes for aerobic microbial
transformation of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) which is mainly catalyzed by LinA …

Saline soil reclamation index as an efficient tool for assessing restoration progress of saline land

SA Edrisi, V Tripathi, RK Chaturvedi… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration of degraded land is imperative for addressing climate change, deriving
additional benefits such as biomass and biofuel for supporting a biobased economy and …

Horizontal planetary mechanochemical method for rapid and efficient remediation of high-concentration lindane-contaminated soils in an alkaline environment

Z Zhang, X Liu, J Huang, H Xu, W Ren, C Lin… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lindane is a persistent organic pollutant that has attracted worldwide attention because of its
threat to human health and environmental security. A horizontal planetary mechanochemical …

Theoretical insight on the treatment of β-hexachlorocyclohexane waste through alkaline dehydrochlorination

A Bescós, CI Herrerías, Z Hormigón, JA Mayoral… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The occurrence of 4.8–7.2 million tons of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers
stocked in dumpsites around the world constitutes a huge environmental and economical …