More than two billion people worldwide have suffered thyroid disorders from either iodine
deficiency or excess. By creating the national map of groundwater iodine throughout China …

Iodine is an atmospheric trace element emitted from oceans that efficiently destroys ozone
(O3). Low O3 in airborne dust layers is frequently observed but poorly understood. We show …

Abstract The Atacama Desert, the driest of its kind on Earth, hosts a number of unique
geological and geochemical features that make it unlike any other environment on the …

高碘地下水(碘浓度大于100 μg/L) 广泛分布于我国沿海地区和干旱内陆盆地,
威胁近千万人口的饮水安全, 但目前对湿润区河湖平原地下水中碘的分布与成因机制的认识还 …

Calcium sulfates play a key role in both industrial processes and the global sulfur cycle. In
arid to hyper-arid planetary surface environments, they can be used to assess the …

Abstract Northern Chile, NW Argentina, and SW Bolivia,(“the lithium triangle”), represent a
world class reservoir of lithium, but this extraordinary enrichment is still controversial, and …

Excessive intake of iodine will do harm to human health. In recent years, high iodine
groundwater has become a global concern after high arsenic and high fluorine groundwater …

Abstract The Atacama region in Northern Chile hosts the driest desert on Earth and provides
the second highest global Li production, containing the largest reported lithium reserves in …

The early Paleozoic witnessed two spectacular radiations of marine organisms—the
Cambrian (Є) Explosion and the Great Ordovician (O) Biodiversification Event. However, the …

Groundwater iodine has direct importance for human dietary iodine intake in areas where
drinking water is of groundwater origin. However, little is known about enrichment and …