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 …

Analyses of sediment core samples are primary sources of historical pollution trends in
aquatic systems. Determining organic compounds, such as POPs, in the dated sediments …

Alpine lake sediments and glacier ice cores retrieved from high mountain regions can
provide long-term records of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic contaminants such as …

Although several studies of microplastics (MPs) with size< 5 mm in lake sediments focused
on lakeshore areas, there have been no studies of distributions of MPs from lakeshores to …

Assessing the risk and sources of heavy metals in cultivated soil is important for the
agricultural development of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. A survey was conducted in this study …

Lake sediments are an important reservoir for toxic and hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs). Monitoring of PAHs in sediment is helpful to understand pollution …

This overview focuses on geochemical and geochronological investigations on dated
sediment profiles, used for the evaluation of the inventory and fate of persistent pollutants …

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 …

Elemental carbon (EC) and polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) are potential proxies for
the reconstruction of change in human activities and the origin of air masses in historic …

Since the turn of the century, our understanding of the quantities, transport pathways, and
fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the largest and …