Antibiotic resistance is recognized as a global threat to public health. The selection and
evolution of antibiotic resistance in clinical pathogens were believed to be majorly driven by …

Lake sediments constitute natural archives of past environmental changes. Historically,
research has focused mainly on generating regional climate records, but records of human …

Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new
information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past …

Human impacts on Earth are now so great that they have led to the concept of a new
geological epoch defined by this global human influence: the Anthropocene. While not …

Rare earth elements (REEs) in urban soils are receiving more attention because of their
increased use in modern technology. Up to now, there is little information about the spatial …

Floods in catchments affected by historical metal mining result in the remobilisation of large
quantities of contaminated sediment from floodplain soils and old mine workings. This poses …

Sediment cores were taken from six sites across the UK. Apart from Banbury Reservoir in
London, all the other sites are relatively remote lakes. Trace elements Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr, Ni …

More than four metres of core, covering almost 5000 years of deposition, were collected in a
high ash minerogenic peat deposit located in the High Aldudes valley (Basque country), an …

Although archaeological research suggests that mining/metallurgy already started in the
Chalcolithic (3rd millennium BC), the earliest atmospheric metal pollution in SW Europe has …

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the'richest historical
records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore …