Clean water shortages require the reuse of wastewater. The presence of organic substances
such as humic acids in wastewater makes the water treatment process more difficult. Humic …

Within the wealth of molecules constituting marine dissolved organic matter, carbohydrates
make up the largest coherent and quantifiable fraction. Their main sources are from primary …

The state of the art of the reported data on interactions between microorganisms and HSs is
presented herein. The properties of HSs are discussed in terms of microbial utilization …

Increasing abundance of microplastics (MP) in marine and freshwaters is currently one of
the greatest environmental concerns. Since plastics are fairly resistant to chemical …

DNA metabarcoding is widely used to study prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial diversity.
Technological constraints limit most studies to marker lengths below 600 base pairs (bp) …

Phytoremediation for environmental sustainability Ram Prasad Editor Phytoremediation for
Environmental Sustainability Page 2 Phytoremediation for Environmental Sustainability …

The hazardous effects of plastic and plastic leachates on organisms, even bacteria, have
attracted widespread attention, but only a limited effort has been devoted to explore the …

In nature, it is often surmised that lignin is degraded almost exclusively by basidiomycetes,
with minor contributions from bacteria and even fewer from ascomycetes. Yet, numerous …

Eutrophication and climate warming cause macrophytes to spread rapidly in shallow lakes.
The accumulation of excess decayed litter in lake water can improve the particulate organic …

Climate change–driven permafrost thaw has a strong influence on pan‐Arctic regions, via,
for example, the formation of thermokarst ponds. These ponds are hotspots of microbial …