Microplastic pollution and associated impacts in the aquatic environment are spreading at
an alarming rate worldwide. Plastic waste is increasing in the environment, and …

Heavy metals are natural elements in the Earth's crust that can enter human food through
industrial or agricultural processing, in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. These elements …

The synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials and nanostructures by the means of diverse
physical, chemical, and biological principles has been developed in recent decades. The …

Management of tailings at metal mine smelter sites can reduce the potential hazards
associated with exposure to toxic metal (loid) s and residual organic flotation reagents. In …

Aquatic environments often receive wastewater containing pollutants such as antibiotics and
heavy metals from hospital sewage, as well as contaminants from soil. The presence of …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen, which can have several virulence
factors that confer on it the ability to cause severe, acute and chronic infections. Thus, the …

Microbial lipids in stalagmites are increasingly used to reconstruct the paleoclimate change,
necessitating the investigations on microbial communities in dripping waters. A pilot …

The aquatic environment is highly complex and diverse, consisting of several types of
ecosystems that are dynamic products of complex interactions between biotic and abiotic …

The widespread use of both heavy metals and antibiotics in livestock farming, followed by
their subsequent arrival on agricultural soils through manure and slurry spreading, has …

Anthropogenic metal pollution can result in co‐selection for antibiotic resistance and
potentially select for increased virulence in bacterial pathogens. Metal‐polluted …