Themed collection Environmental Science: Advances: Highlight Europe

“Advanced Materials” (AdMas) represent the next technology frontier.

Chemical pollution poses a threat to biodiversity on a global scale.

Massive CO₂ removals will be necessary to avoid climate tipping. Comparing removals with past, current and future carbon stocks and flows reveals the importance of avoiding fossil emissions completely and developing scalable technical solutions.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a class of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

The adsorption of triclosan in highly siliceous zeolites was studied with electronic structure calculations, delivering insights into the impact of pore size, shape, and hydrophobicity on the affinity towards this emerging organic contaminant.

The Himalayan Tibetan Plateau (HTP) is one of the world's most climate-sensitive regions outside the polar regions.

A solid-based NaOH technology for CO₂ capture is presented and an exhaustive discussion of the environmental and energy impact assessments of this transformative process is presented with promising results.

When modeling many physicochemical, biochemical, and ecological processes, numerical data on Henry's law constants are much desired.

A CNN was developed to classify extracted features from nontarget mass spectrometry workflows. The CNN accuracy ranged from 85% to 100%. These tools will be important in data-driven research enabling rapid processing of large volume and complex datasets.

The first regional topsoil sampling campaign since 2011 maps elevated background concentrations of potentially toxic elements in soils across north-west Syria following more than a decade of conflict.

Low concentration of antibiotics within the environment are known to select for antibiotic resistance (ABR), a global health and economic threat. This manuscript presents a framework to assess the ABR risk in soils where slurry or manure is applied.

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are promising materials for the remediation of trace elements, which are a significant source of soil pollution.

Inconsistent chemical identifiers are reported so that they can be corrected and similar types of errors avoided in the future.

This simple microscopic approach reveals a mass-transport limited rate of coccolith auto-dissolution in undersaturated aqueous solution and offers a routine method to quantify the mass of particulate inorganic carbon per coccolith.

The electrokinetic generation of iron-rich barriers at scale under realistic site conditions is demonstrated, with potential application for subsurface contaminant management at nuclear and other sites.

NER, a hidden hazard or a safe sink–we are going to find that out!

Increasing air change rate can reduce the performance of air purifiers by acting as a source of outdoor PM into the indoors. Use of multiple air purifiers in a residence reduces PM at a greater rate than use of a single more powerful air purifier.

The simultaneous monitoring of the triple stable S-isotopes (³²S, ³³S and ³⁴S) of hydrogen sulfide has been conducted with a VCOF-CRDS set-up (a V-shaped cavity for optical feedback coupled to a cavity ring down spectrometer).