Soils are polluted by both organic and inorganic substances. Plants growing in polluted soils
suffer damages such as leaf rolls, chlorosis, growth inhibition, root tips browning, and death …

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been used in a broad array of polymeric
materials such as plastics, foams, resins and adhesives to inhibit the spread of fires since …

Abstract Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have become a very serious issue for the
environment because of their toxicity, resistance to conventional degradation mechanisms …

Iron and steel slags are smelting wastes, mainly including blast furnace slag (BFS) and steel
slag (SS) produced in the iron and steel industry. Utilization of iron and steel slags as …

Atmospheric and concurrent soil samples were collected during winter and summer of 2014
at 41 sites in Kutahya, Turkey to investigate spatial and seasonal variations, sources, air-soil …

The continuous discharge of diverse chemical products in the environment is nowadays of
great concern to the whole world as some of them persist in the environment leading to …

As persistent organic pollutants (POPs) newly banned by the Stockholm Convention,
polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) have been widely detected in various environmental …

Urban centers have turned to be the provincial store for resource consumptions and source
releases of different types of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) including polycyclic …

Pine needles are employed as alternative biomonitoring agents in atmospheric studies. In
this study, pine (Pinus Pinea) components (needles and branches) and air samples were …

The present study aimed to determine the pollution levels derived from polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air, plant and soil samples and to reveal the PAH exchange at the …