1. Role of cosubstrate and bioaccessibility played in the enhanced anaerobic biodegradation of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in a paddy soil by nitrate and methyl-β-cyclodextrin amendments

   • Mao Ye
   • Mingming Sun
   • Xin Jiang

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7785 - 7796

   

2. Photodegradation of naproxen in water under simulated solar radiation: mechanism, kinetics, and toxicity variation

   • Dujuan Ma
   • Guoguang Liu
   • Huahua Xiao

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7797 - 7804

   

3. The influence of hydroxyl volatile organic compounds on the oxidation of aqueous sulfur dioxide by oxygen

   • Yogpal Dhayal
   • C. P. S. Chandel
   • K. S. Gupta

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7805 - 7817

   

4. Photolysis of estrone generates estrogenic photoproducts with higher activity than the parent compound

   • Yasmine Souissi
   • Said Kinani
   • Selim Aït-Aïssa

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7818 - 7827

   

5. Residence time effects on phase transformation of nanosilver in reduced soils

   • Allison Rick VandeVoort
   • Ryan Tappero
   • Yuji Arai

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7828 - 7837

   

6. Assessment of volatile organic compound removal by indoor plants—a novel experimental setup

   • Majbrit Dela Cruz
   • Renate Müller
   • Jan H. Christensen

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7838 - 7846

   

7. Levels, distribution profile, and risk assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in water and sediment from two tributaries of the River Chenab, Pakistan

   • Adeel Mahmood
   • Riffat Naseem Malik
   • Gan Zhang

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7847 - 7855

   

8. Synergistic degradation of deca-BDE by an enrichment culture and zero-valent iron

   • Xingjuan Chen
   • Guilan Chen
   • Meiying Xu

   Research Article 19 March 2014 Pages: 7856 - 7862

   

9. Concentrations, atmospheric partitioning, and air–water/soil surface exchange of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran along the upper reaches of the Haihe River basin, North China

   • Zhiqiang Nie
   • Qingqi Die
   • Qifei Huang

   Research Article 20 March 2014 Pages: 7863 - 7875

   

10. Annual input fluxes of heavy metals in agricultural soil of Hainan Island, China

    • Wei Jiang
    • Qingye Hou
    • Yangrong Fu

    Research Article 20 March 2014 Pages: 7876 - 7885

    

11. Newborns and low to moderate prenatal environmental lead exposure: might fathers be the key?

    • Esther García-Esquinas
    • Nuria Aragonés
    • Beatriz Pérez-Gómez

    Research Article 21 March 2014 Pages: 7886 - 7898

    

12. Fate and effects of metal-based nanoparticles in two marine invertebrates, the bivalve mollusc Scrobicularia plana and the annelid polychaete Hediste diversicolor

    • Catherine Mouneyrac
    • Pierre-Emmanuel Buffet
    • Eugénia Valsami-Jones

    Research Article 21 March 2014 Pages: 7899 - 7912

    

13. Informal e-waste recycling: environmental risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in Mandoli industrial area, Delhi, India

    • Jatindra Kumar Pradhan
    • Sudhir Kumar

    Research Article 22 March 2014 Pages: 7913 - 7928

    

14. Preparation of petroleum-degrading bacterial agent and its application in remediation of contaminated soil in Shengli Oil Field, China

    • Yang Yu
    • Wen Zhang
    • Jianing Wang

    Research Article 22 March 2014 Pages: 7929 - 7937

    

15. Chromium phytoextraction from tannery effluent-contaminated soil by Crotalaria juncea infested with Pseudomonas fluorescens

    • Anamika Agarwal
    • Harminder Pal Singh
    • J. P. N. Rai

    Research Article 22 March 2014 Pages: 7938 - 7944

    

16. Effect of Pseudomonas sp. HF-1 inoculum on construction of a bioaugmented system for tobacco wastewater treatment: analysis from quorum sensing

    • Mei-Zhen Wang
    • Hong-Zhen He
    • Dong-Sheng Shen

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 7945 - 7955

    

17. Protective effect of Syzygium cumini against pesticide-induced cardiotoxicity

    • Neha Atale
    • Khushboo Gupta
    • Vibha Rani

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 7956 - 7972

    

18. Characterizing the heavy metal-complexing potential of fluorescent water-extractable organic matter from composted municipal solid wastes using fluorescence excitation–emission matrix spectra coupled with parallel factor analysis

    • Xiao-Song He
    • Bei-Dou Xi
    • Ying Yuan

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 7973 - 7984

    

19. A semiparametric statistical approach for forecasting SO₂ and NO _x concentrations

    • Hongwei Lu
    • Yimei Zhang
    • Li He

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 7985 - 7995

    

20. Column dynamic studies and breakthrough curve analysis for Cd(II) and Cu(II) ions adsorption onto palm oil boiler mill fly ash (POFA)

    • Abdul Shukor Abdul Aziz
    • Latifah Abd Manaf
    • Nadavala Siva Kumar

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 7996 - 8005

    

21. Survey of cyanobacterial toxins in Czech water reservoirs—the first observation of neurotoxic saxitoxins

    • Daniel Jančula
    • Lucie Straková
    • Pavel Babica

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 8006 - 8015

    

22. Copolymerization of 2,4-dichlorophenol with humic substances by oxidative and photo-oxidative biomimetic catalysis

    • Barbara Fontaine
    • Marios Drosos
    • Pierluigi Mazzei

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 8016 - 8024

    

23. Adsorption and photocatalytic decomposition of roxarsone by TiO₂ and its mechanism

    • Donglei Lu
    • Feng Ji
    • Tianhu Chen

    Research Article 23 March 2014 Pages: 8025 - 8035

    

24. Evaluation of spatial-temporal variations and trends in surface water quality across a rural-suburban-urban interface

    • Kun Mei
    • Lingling Liao
    • Minghua Zhang

    Research Article 25 March 2014 Pages: 8036 - 8051

    

25. Formation of chlorinated species through reaction of SO₂ with NaClO₂ powder and their role in the oxidation of NO and Hg⁰

    • Youngchul Byun
    • Ian P. Hamilton
    • Dong Nam Shin

    Research Article 25 March 2014 Pages: 8052 - 8058

    

26. Atmospheric concentrations, gaseous–particulate distribution, and carcinogenic potential of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Assiut, Egypt

    • Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah
    • Noha Nahedj Atia

    Research Article 26 March 2014 Pages: 8059 - 8069

    

27. Oxidative injury and antioxidant genes regulation in cadmium-exposed radicles of six contrasted Medicago truncatula genotypes

    • Sondès Rahoui
    • Cécile Ben
    • Ezzeddine El Ferjani

    Research Article 26 March 2014 Pages: 8070 - 8083

    

28. Mammalian cell line-based bioassays for toxicological evaluation of landfill leachate treated by Pseudomonas sp. ISTDF1

    • Pooja Ghosh
    • Mihir Tanay Das
    • Indu Shekhar Thakur

    Research Article 27 March 2014 Pages: 8084 - 8094

    

29. Optimization of integrated water quality management for agricultural efficiency and environmental conservation

    • Amr Fleifle
    • Oliver Saavedra
    • Ahmed Tawfik

    Research Article 27 March 2014 Pages: 8095 - 8111

    

30. Genotoxic assessment and optimization of pressmud with the help of exotic earthworm Eisenia fetida

    • Sartaj Ahmad Bhat
    • Jaswinder Singh
    • Adarsh Pal Vig

    Research Article 27 March 2014 Pages: 8112 - 8123

    

31. Simultaneous separation of apigenin, luteolin and rosmarinic acid from the aerial parts of the copper-tolerant plant Elsholtzia splendens

    • Hongyun Peng
    • Yan Xing
    • Guolin Zhang

    Research Article 27 March 2014 Pages: 8124 - 8132

    

32. Correlations between PAH bioavailability, degrading bacteria, and soil characteristics during PAH biodegradation in five diffusely contaminated dissimilar soils

    • M. Crampon
    • F. Bureau
    • F. Portet-Koltalo

    Research Article 28 March 2014 Pages: 8133 - 8145

    

33. Efficiency of a cleanup technology to remove mercury from natural waters by means of rice husk biowaste: ecotoxicological and chemical approach

    • Luciana S. Rocha
    • I. Lopes
    • Eduarda Pereira

    Research Article 28 March 2014 Pages: 8146 - 8156

    

34. Low-cost adsorbent prepared from sewage sludge and corn stalk for the removal of COD in leachate

    • Ying He
    • Xiaofeng Liao
    • Wei Shu

    Research Article 28 March 2014 Pages: 8157 - 8166

    

35. Influence of the organic loading rate on the performance and the granular sludge characteristics of an EGSB reactor used for treating traditional Chinese medicine wastewater

    • Weiguang Li
    • Chengyuan Su
    • Lei Zhang

    Research Article 28 March 2014 Pages: 8167 - 8175

    

36. Acute toxicity of copper, lead, cadmium, and zinc to early life stages of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in laboratory and Columbia River water

    • David W. Vardy
    • Robert Santore
    • Markus Hecker

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8176 - 8187

    

37. The effect of aerosol optical depth on rainfall with reference to meteorology over metro cities in India

    • Indira Gunaseelan
    • B. Vijay Bhaskar
    • K. Muthuchelian

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8188 - 8197

    

38. Synergic degradation of diesel by Scirpus triqueter and its endophytic bacteria

    • Xinying Zhang
    • Lisha Chen
    • Kaifang Deng

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8198 - 8205

    

39. Antioxidant responses in clam Venerupis philippinarum exposed to environmental pollutant hexabromocyclododecane

    • Hui Zhang
    • Luqing Pan
    • Yanxia Tao

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8206 - 8215

    

40. Toxic effect of metal cation binary mixtures to the seaweed Gracilaria domingensis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)

    • Luiz Fernando Mendes
    • Cassius Vinicius Stevani
    • Pio Colepicolo

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8216 - 8223

    

41. Engineering the metabolism of the phenylurea herbicide chlortoluron in genetically modified Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing the mammalian cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP1A2

    • Rashad Kebeish
    • Ehab Azab
    • Radwa El-Basheer

    Research Article 29 March 2014 Pages: 8224 - 8232

    

42. (Eco)toxicological effects of 2,4,7,9-tetramethyl-5-decyne-4,7-diol (TMDD) in zebrafish (Danio rerio) and permanent fish cell cultures

    • Krisztina Vincze
    • Martin Gehring
    • Thomas Braunbeck

    Research Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 8233 - 8241

    

43. Distribution, origin, and transformation of metal and metalloid pollution in vegetable fields, irrigation water, and aerosols near a Pb-Zn mine

    • Liqiang Luo
    • Binbin Chu
    • Ying Bo

    Research Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 8242 - 8260

    

44. Physiological and transcriptional responses of Baccharis halimifolia to the explosive “composition B” (RDX/TNT) in amended soil

    • Asjad Ali
    • Julie C. Zinnert
    • C. Neal Stewart Jr.

    Research Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 8261 - 8270

    

45. Responses of kinetics and capacity of phenanthrene sorption on sediments to soil organic matter releasing

    • Xiaoyan Zhang
    • Yaoguo Wu
    • Hairui Yao

    Research Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 8271 - 8283

    

46. Soil concentrations and source apportionment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and trace elements around a heavily industrialized area in Kocaeli, Turkey

    • Banu Cetin

    Research Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 8284 - 8293

    

47. Hydrogeochemical evaluation of calcareous eolianite aquifer with saline soil in a semiarid area

    • Zenhom El-Said Salem
    • Mohamed M. El-horiny

    Research Article 03 April 2014 Pages: 8294 - 8314

    

48. Biochemical defense strategies in sterilized seedlings of Nymphoides peltatum adapted to lead stress

    • Xuqiang Qiao
    • Guoxin Shi
    • Haiyan Yang

    Research Article 06 April 2014 Pages: 8315 - 8322

    

49. Effect of tetraconazole application on the soil microbial community

    • Wenwen Zhang
    • Jun Xu
    • Yongquan Zheng

    Research Article 06 April 2014 Pages: 8323 - 8332