Diffuse soil pollution from agriculture: Impacts and remediation

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 962, С. 178398 - 178398

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Agricultural activities are essential for sustaining the global population, yet they exert considerable pressure on environment. A major challenge we face today is agricultural pollution, much of which diffuse in nature, lacking a clear point origin chemical discharge. Modern practices, often depend substantial applications fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water, key contributors to this form pollution. These lead downstream contamination through mechanisms such as surface runoff, leaching, soil erosion, wind dispersal, sedimentation. The environmental human health consequences pollution profound cannot be ignored. Accurate assessment risks posed by pollutants crucial ensuring production safe, high-quality food while safeguarding This requires systematic monitoring evaluation including testing nutrient management. Furthermore, development implementation best management practices (BMPs) critical reducing levels Such measures mitigating negative impacts ecosystems public health. Therefore, adoption preventive strategies aimed at minimizing its associated highly recommended ensure long-term sustainability well-being.

Язык: Английский

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Impact of Polystyrene Micro- and Nanoplastics on the Biological Traits of the Japanese Carpenter Ant, Camponotus japonicus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Insects, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(3), С. 292 - 292

Опубликована: Март 11, 2025

Insects, being among the most diverse and abundant organisms in terrestrial ecosystems, are inevitably exposed to ubiquitous micro- nanoplastic contaminants. Although studies on impact of these contaminants insects gradually emerging, they remain limited scope. In this study, we investigated biological traits (including foraging behavior, food assumption, digging ability, body weight survival) Japanese carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus, response exposure polystyrene (PS-M/NP) solutions containing three particle sizes (0.05, 1 50 μm) four concentrations (0.1, 1, 10 mg/mL). The results showed that worker ants exhibited significant preference consumption for non-contaminated multiple-choice experiments, indicating C. japonicus can differentiate avoid feeding PS-M/NP-contaminated solutions. Meanwhile, PS-M/NPs significantly reduced ability no-choice with smallest size (0.05 highest concentration (50 mg/mL) resulting longest pre-foraging period, lowest percentage licking amount consumption. addition, sand removed by ants, survival a dramatic decline decrease size, increase prolonged time study confirm have an adverse effect time-dependent manner, small high longer key factors decreasing behavior insect.

Язык: Английский

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Plastics–Fertilizer Homology: Solid-Phase Molecular Assembly Enables Natural Closed-Ring Cycle of Biomass-like Plastics

ACS Materials Letters, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1646 - 1653

Опубликована: Март 31, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Guidelines toward ecologically-informed bioprospecting for microbial plastic degradation

Biotechnology Advances, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 108590 - 108590

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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