The large-scale use of organophosphate esters (OPEs) as flame retardants and plasticizers
has led to their prevalence in the environment, with still unknown broader impacts. This …

For legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs), surprisingly little is still known
in quantitative terms about their global sources and emissions. Atmospheric transport has …

Scavenging of gas-and aerosol-phase organic pollutants by rain is an efficient wet
deposition mechanism of organic pollutants. However, whereas snow has been identified as …

The atmosphere plays a fundamental role in the transport of microbes across the planet but
it is often neglected as a microbial habitat. Although the ocean represents two thirds of the …

The occurrence of a growing number of environmental changes attributable to human
pressures at the planetary scale has led to the identification of these changes as part of a …

Atmospheric deposition of total organic carbon (OC) and black carbon (BC) is lacking or not
fully accounted in most current models of the global carbon cycling, specially those fluxes …

Surface seawater and boundary layer atmospheric samples were collected on the FS
Polarstern during cruise ARKXX in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean in 2004. Samples …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and other semivolatile aromatic-like compounds, are an
important and ubiquitous fraction of organic matter in the environment. The occurrence of …

Air and seawater samples were taken simultaneously to investigate the distribution and air−
sea gas exchange of phthalates in the Arctic onboard the German Research Ship FS …

Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are widely used as flame retardants and plasticizers and
have been detected ubiquitously in the remote atmosphere. Fourteen OPEs were analyzed …