Indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilizers causes environmental pollution, emergence of
agricultural pests and pathogens, and loss of biodiversity. Nanotechnology, by virtue of …

Environmental Context. The fate and behaviour of trace pollutants are very strongly
modified, and usually dominated, by their physical and chemical interactions with naturally …

Strong correlations between iron oxides (FeOx) and organic matter (OM) in soils have
implied the importance of the former in stabilizing the latter. One mechanism thought to be …

Researchers are now discovering that naturally occurring environmental nanoparticles can
play a key role in important chemical characteristics and the overall quality of natural and …

Soils are complex mixtures of solids from millimeter to nanometer in particle size, which may
contain moisture. It is now possible to understand these structures using techniques …

The chemical status of major and trace elements (TE) and organic carbon (OC) has been
studied in the Severnaya Dvina and Pinega rivers draining granitic moraine, carbonate and …

The chemical status of∼ 40 major and trace elements (TE) and organic carbon (OC) in
pristine boreal rivers draining the basaltic plateau of Central Siberia (Putorana) and …

The photo-Fenton reaction, oxidation of photoproduced ferrous iron by hydrogen peroxide,
produces reactive oxidants that may be important to degradation of biologically and …

Freshwater suspended particulate matter (SPM) plays an important role in many
biogeochemical cycles and serves multiple ecosystem functions. Most SPM is present as …

Nanogeochemistry—a newly emerging research field—attempts to understand geochemical
reactions and mass transfers at nanometer scales, especially with regards to the formation of …