1. Characteristics of dissolved organic matter in surface water and sediment and its ecological indication in a typical mining-affected river—Le’an River, China

   • Wenhui Liu
   • Teng Ma
   • Junqi Li

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37115 - 37128

   

2. Temporal variation in leachate composition of a newly constructed landfill site in Lahore in context to environmental pollution and risks

   • Mahsoon Ashraf
   • Muhammad Zeshan
   • Sajid Rashid Ahmad

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37129 - 37143

   

3. Enhanced oil removal from a real polymer production plant by cellulose nanocrystals-serine incorporated polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane

   • Azar Asadi
   • Foad Gholami
   • Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37144 - 37158

   

4. Functionalized porous nanoscale Fe₃O₄ particles supported biochar from peanut shell for Pb(II) ions removal from landscape wastewater

   • Xiaojun Jin
   • Renrong Liu
   • Baowei Hu

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37159 - 37169

   

5. Nexus among electricity consumption, foreign direct investment and aggregate economic activity towards Nigeria’s economic performance: evidence from a trivariate causality model

   • Uche M. Ozughalu
   • Uche C. Ogbuefi

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37170 - 37186

6. Possible health risk assessment for heavy metal concentrations in water, sediment, and fish species and Turkmen pregnant women’s biomonitoring in Miankaleh Peninsula, Iran

   • Zahra Shaabani
   • Abbas Esmaili-sari
   • Forough Farsad

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37187 - 37203

   

7. Sustainable adsorptive removal of antibiotics from aqueous streams using Fe₃O₄-functionalized MIL101(Fe) chitosan composite beads

   • Pratibha Yadav
   • Anshul Yadav
   • Pawan Kumar Labhasetwar

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37204 - 37217

   

8. Source apportionment, ecological, and human health risks of toxic metals in road dust of densely populated capital and connected major highway of Bangladesh

   • Md. Morshedul Haque
   • Sajin Sultana
   • Shafi M. Tareq

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37218 - 37233

   

9. Predicting joint effects of multiple land consolidation strategies on ecosystem service interactions

   • Zikang Zhou
   • Dianfeng Liu
   • Jianhua He

   Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37234 - 37247

   

10. Responses of photosynthesis, antioxidant enzymes, and related gene expression to nicosulfuron stress in sweet maize (Zea mays L.)

    • Zhen-Xing Wu
    • Ning-Wei Xu
    • Jian Wang

    Research Article 15 January 2022 Pages: 37248 - 37265

    

11. Impact mechanism and performance enhancement of ultrasound on ZVI-anammox system

    • Li Zhang
    • Shuang Lan
    • Yongzhen Peng

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37266 - 37276

    

12. Greenhouse gas dynamics in an urbanized river system: influence of water quality and land use

    • Long Ho
    • Ruben Jerves-Cobo
    • Peter Goethals

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37277 - 37290

    

13. An extended hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision model for sustainable and resilient supplier selection

    • Ahmadreza Afrasiabi
    • Madjid Tavana
    • Debora Di Caprio

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37291 - 37314

    

14. Analysis on ecological status and spatial–temporal variation of Tamarix chinensis forest based on spectral characteristics and remote sensing vegetation indices

    • Jin Wang
    • Ping Han
    • Feiyong Chen

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37315 - 37326

    

15. Impact of human capital and financial globalization on environmental degradation in OBOR countries: Critical role of national cultural orientations

    • Bin Wang
    • Chuanzhe Yan
    • Ahmad Arslan

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37327 - 37343

    

16. The impact of foreign direct investment, tourism, electricity consumption, and economic development on CO₂ emissions in Bangladesh

    • Md. Atikur Rahaman
    • Md. Afzal Hossain
    • Songsheng Chen

    Research Article 20 January 2022 Pages: 37344 - 37358

    

17. Experimental study on the pore and solid structures of municipal solid waste under compression based on computed tomography (CT) scans

    • Han Ke
    • Ying Liu
    • Xiao Wen Wu

    Research Article 21 January 2022 Pages: 37359 - 37374

    

18. Analysis of essential, toxic, rare earth, and noble elements in maternal and umbilical cord blood

    • Aleksandar Stojsavljević
    • Marija Rovčanin
    • Dragan Manojlović

    Research Article 21 January 2022 Pages: 37375 - 37383

    

19. Hydrochemical characteristics and identification of groundwater pollution sources in tropical savanna

    • Abduljalal Abdulsalam
    • Mohammad Firuz Ramli
    • Da’u Abba Umar

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37384 - 37398

    

20. A feasibility study on production of concrete blocks using treated municipal solid waste leachate

    • Negar Esmaeili
    • Nima Heidarzadeh

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37399 - 37410

    

21. Impacts of regional development on emissions in China’s transport sector

    • Yiwen Wu
    • Rong Yuan
    • Yuchen Pan

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37411 - 37422

    

22. Comparative ecological network pattern analysis: a case of Nanchang

    • Binbin Ma
    • Zhu-an Chen
    • Liting Zhang

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37423 - 37434

    

23. Biochar reduces the toxicity of silver to barley (Hordeum vulgare) and springtails (Folsomia candida) in a natural soil

    • Klára Anna Mocová
    • Šárka Petrová
    • Paula S. Tourinho

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37435 - 37444

    

24. Occupational ocular health problems among marble workers at Shaq El Tho’ban industrial area in Egypt

    • Enjy A. E. Khorshed
    • Safaa A. El-Naggar
    • Amani S. Ahmed

    Research Article Open access 23 January 2022 Pages: 37445 - 37457

    

25. Cyanide treatment of mining tailings using suspended biomass and moving bed biomass reactors

    • Angélica Julieta Alvillo-Rivera
    • Sofía Esperanza Garrido-Hoyos
    • Germán Buitrón

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37458 - 37470

    

26. Micro- and mesoplastics in sea surface water from a Northern Adriatic coastal area

    • Davide Marchetto
    • Lavinia de Ferri
    • Giulio Pojana

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37471 - 37497

    

27. Variation of Aulacoseira granulata as an eco-pollution indicator in subtropical large river Ganga in India: a multivariate analytical approach

    • Trupti Rani Mohanty
    • Nitish Kumar Tiwari
    • Basanta Kumar Das

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37498 - 37512

    

28. A spatial econometric analysis of convergence in global environmental performance

    • Faisal Azeem Abbassi
    • Mirajul Haq

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37513 - 37526

29. Multi-drug resistance, integron and transposon-mediated gene transfer in heterotrophic bacteria from Penaeus vannamei and its culture environment

    • Ranjit Kumar Nadella
    • Satyen Kumar Panda
    • Mukteswar Prasad Mothadaka

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37527 - 37542

    

30. The mediating role of coagulation function on the association of prenatal exposure to aflatoxin B1 and postpartum hemorrhage in Guangxi, China

    • Jiehua Chen
    • Ye Ye
    • Xiaoyun Zeng

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37543 - 37555

    

31. Role of environmental lead in the occurrence of anemia in Indian children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Vivek Singh Malik
    • Manvi Singh
    • Meenu Singh

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37556 - 37564

    

32. Heterogeneous impacts of financial development on carbon emissions: evidence from China’s provincial data

    • Hongyan Liu
    • Guofei Gong

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37565 - 37581

    

33. Microbial communities in swamps of four mangrove reserves driven by interactions between physicochemical properties and microbe in the North Beibu Gulf, China

    • Lu Li
    • Chunyan Peng
    • Bin Gong

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37582 - 37597

    

34. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and population growth influence carbon emissions in the BRICS? Evidence from panel models robust to cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity

    • Hao Chen
    • Evelyn Agba Tackie
    • Samuel Atingabili

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37598 - 37616

    

35. Financial development, ecological transition, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries: the performing role of the quality of institutions and human capital

    • Abdoulganiour Almame Tinta

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37617 - 37632

    

36. pH dependent synthesis and characterization of bismuth molybdate nanostructure for photocatalysis degradation of organic pollutants

    • Huda N. Abid
    • Amar Al-keisy
    • Abbas Khammas

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37633 - 37643

    

37. Umbelliferone ameliorates ulcerative colitis induced by acetic acid via modulation of TLR4/NF-κB-p65/iNOS and SIRT1/PPARγ signaling pathways in rats

    • Basel A. Abdel-Wahab
    • Saad A. Alkahtani
    • Emad H. M. Hassanein

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37644 - 37659

    

38. Environmental strategies for achieving a new foreign direct investment golden decade in Algeria

    • Maroua Chaouachi
    • Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37660 - 37675

    

39. Exploring the potential effect of Achnatherum splendens L.–derived biochar treated with phosphoric acid on bioavailability of cadmium and wheat growth in contaminated soil

    • Muhammad Irfan
    • Khadim Dawar
    • Wajid Nasim

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37676 - 37684

    

40. Ni-Co bimetallic catalysts on coconut shell activated carbon prepared using solid-phase method for highly efficient dry reforming of methane

    • Longzhi Li
    • Jian Chen
    • Guifu Zou

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37685 - 37699

    

41. Combined effects of air pollution in adulthood and famine exposure in early life on type 2 diabetes

    • Wenqian Huo
    • Jian Hou
    • Chongjian Wang

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37700 - 37711

    

42. Antibiotic resistomes in water supply reservoirs sediments of central China: main biotic drivers and distribution pattern

    • Kai Zhang
    • Kuangjia Li
    • Ying Zhang

    Research Article 23 January 2022 Pages: 37712 - 37721

    

43. Substrate loading rates conducive to nitritation in entrapped cell reactors: performance and microbial community structure

    • Pattaraporn Kunapongkiti
    • Chaiwat Rongsayamanont
    • Tawan Limpiyakorn

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37722 - 37736

    

44. PM_2.5-bound phthalates and phthalate substitutes in a megacity of southern China: spatioseasonal variations, source apportionment, and risk assessment

    • Yu-Qi Huang
    • Yuan Zeng
    • Bi-Xian Mai

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37737 - 37747

    

45. A game-theoretic approach to designing an optimal code of conduct program to promote supplier sustainability in a supply chain

    • Hamid Zarei
    • Morteza Rasti-Barzoki

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37748 - 37764

    

46. Screening of various Brassica species for phytoremediation of heavy metals-contaminated soil of Lakki Marwat, Pakistan

    • Iftikhar Ali
    • Muhammad Jamil Khan
    • Muhammad Daud Khan

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37765 - 37776

    

47. Basic oxygen furnace sludge to treat industrial arsenic- and sulfate-rich acid mine drainage

    • Sandrine F. Araujo
    • Cláudia L. Caldeira
    • Gustavo F. Simões

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37777 - 37789

    

48. Correction to: Basic oxygen furnace sludge to treat industrial arsenic- and sulfate‑rich acid mine drainage

    • Sandrine F. Araujo
    • Cláudia L. Caldeira
    • Gustavo F. Simões

    Correction 03 February 2022 Pages: 37790 - 37790

49. Effects of zinc and iron on the abundance of Microcystis in Lake Taihu under green light and turbulence conditions

    • Yunrui Wu
    • Guijun Yang
    • Yun Guo

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37791 - 37803

    

50. Respiratory, hepatic, renal, and hematological disorders among adolescent females environmentally exposed to pesticides, Menoufia governorate, Egypt

    • Gaafar Mohamed Abdel-Rasoul
    • Eman Abdel-Azeem Salem
    • Aziza Saad Elbadry

    Research Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 37804 - 37814