Contaminated sites from electronic waste (e-waste) dismantling and coking plants feature high concentrations of heavy metals (HMs) and/or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) …
M Rubin-Blum, Y Yudkovsky, S Marmen, O Raveh… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Weathered oil, that is, tar, forms hotspots of hydrocarbon degradation by complex biota in marine environment. Here, we used marker gene sequencing and metagenomics to …
In this study, the coast of Lebanon was analyzed for the dynamic changes in sediment microbial communities in response to a major petroleum oil spill and tar contamination that …
AP Nascimento, RNA Azevedo, MGA Pereira… - Marine Environmental …, 2025 - Elsevier
This work applied the forensic environmental geochemistry assessment to evaluate the tarballs that contaminated the coast of Brazil in late 2022. Accordingly, saturated and …
Oil spills can result in changes in chemical concentrations along coastlines. In prior work, these concentration changes were used to evaluate the date sediment was impacted by oil …
Coastal sand dunes (CSDs), unique, stressed and hostile habitats act as a barrier between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. CSDs are stressed in terms of nutrition and fluctuating …