1. Selected issues related to the toxicity of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents—a review

   • Błażej Kudłak
   • Katarzyna Owczarek
   • Jacek Namieśnik

   Review Article 05 June 2015 Pages: 11975 - 11992

   

2. Hexabromocyclododecane diastereoisomers in surface sediments from river drainage basins of Shanghai, China: occurrence, distribution, and mass inventory

   • Liang Tang
   • Hai-Yang Shao
   • Ming-Hong Wu

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 11993 - 12000

   

3. Remediation of PAH-contaminated soil at a gas manufacturing plant by a combined two-phase partition system washing and microbial degradation process

   • Xuan Gong
   • Xinyang Xu
   • Haibo Li

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12001 - 12010

   

4. Bioaccumulative characteristics of tetrabromobisphenol A and hexabromocyclododecanes in multi-tissues of prey and predator fish from an e-waste site, South China

   • Bin Tang
   • Yan-Hong Zeng
   • Bi-Xian Mai

   Research Article Open access 15 April 2015 Pages: 12011 - 12017

   

5. Phthalate esters contamination in soils and vegetables of plastic film greenhouses of suburb Nanjing, China and the potential human health risk

   • Ting Ting Ma
   • Long Hua Wu
   • Yong Ming Luo

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12018 - 12028

   

6. Identification of refined petroleum products in contaminated soils using an identification index for GC chromatograms

   • Dongwook Kwon
   • Myoung-Soo Ko
   • Seunghak Lee

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12029 - 12034

   

7. Preparation and characterization of humic acid–carbon hybrid materials as adsorbents for organic micro-pollutants

   • Emad K. Radwan
   • Hany H. Abdel Ghafar
   • Gopal Achari

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12035 - 12049

   

8. The dynamic interaction between combustible renewables and waste consumption and international tourism: the case of Tunisia

   • Mehdi Ben Jebli
   • Slim Ben Youssef
   • Nicholas Apergis

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12050 - 12061

   

9. Natural radioactivity in tap waters from the private wells in the surroundings of the former Žirovski Vrh uranium mine and the age-dependent dose assessment

   • Ljudmila Benedik
   • Leja Rovan
   • Helena Prosen

   Research Article 15 April 2015 Pages: 12062 - 12072

   

10. Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well

    • Steve R. Kolian
    • Scott A. Porter
    • Wilma A. Subra

    Research Article Open access 16 April 2015 Pages: 12073 - 12082

    

11. Nonylphenol biodegradation, functional gene abundance and bacterial community in bioaugmented sediment: effect of external carbon source

    • Zhao Wang
    • Yu Dai
    • Shuguang Xie

    Research Article 16 April 2015 Pages: 12083 - 12091

    

12. Rice husks and their hydrochars cause unexpected stress response in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: reduced transcription of stress-related genes

    • Shumon Chakrabarti
    • Christiane Dicke
    • Jürgen Kern

    Research Article 16 April 2015 Pages: 12092 - 12103

    

13. Contamination of sulfonamide antibiotics and sulfamethazine-resistant bacteria in the downstream and estuarine areas of Jiulong River in Southeast China

    • Danyun Ou
    • Bin Chen
    • Heshan Lin

    Research Article Open access 16 April 2015 Pages: 12104 - 12113

    

14. Application of sewage sludge and sewage sludge biochar to reduce polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and potentially toxic elements (PTE) accumulation in tomato

    • Muhammad Waqas
    • Gang Li
    • Cai Chao

    Research Article 17 April 2015 Pages: 12114 - 12123

    

15. Physiological effects of ozone exposure on De Colgar and Rechaiga II tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cultivars

    • Benchohra Maamar
    • Mohamed Maatoug
    • Mohammed Ait hammou

    Research Article 17 April 2015 Pages: 12124 - 12132

    

16. Isolation and characterization of a new reported cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya bijugata coproducing odorous geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol

    • Zhongjie Wang
    • Peng Xiao
    • Renhui Li

    Research Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 12133 - 12140

    

17. The bioavailability and adverse impacts of lead and decabromodiphenyl ether on soil microbial activities

    • Lei Chen
    • Wei Zhang
    • Liqun Wu

    Research Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 12141 - 12149

    

18. Mercurial exposure of residents of Santarém and Oriximiná cities (Pará, Brazil) through fish consumption

    • Jean-Paul Bourdineaud
    • Gilles Durrieu
    • Ricardo Bezerra de Oliveira

    Research Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 12150 - 12161

    

19. Thermally based isotopic speciation of carbon in complex matrices: a tool for environmental investigation

    • Claudio Natali
    • Gianluca Bianchini

    Research Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 12162 - 12173

    

20. Biological activity of the metal-rich post-flotation tailings at an abandoned mine tailings pond (four decades after experimental afforestation)

    • Zuzana Feketeová
    • Veronika Hulejová Sládkovičová
    • Ivan Šimkovic

    Research Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 12174 - 12181

21. Sorption of sulfisoxazole onto soil—an insight into different influencing factors

    • Joanna Maszkowska
    • Anna Białk-Bielińska
    • Piotr Stepnowski

    Research Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 12182 - 12189

    

22. An evaluation of surface micro- and mesoplastic pollution in pelagic ecosystems of the Western Mediterranean Sea

    • Florian Faure
    • Camille Saini
    • Pascal Hagmann

    Research Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 12190 - 12197

    

23. Steady-state analytical models for performance assessment of landfill composite liners

    • Haijian Xie
    • Yuansheng Jiang
    • Zhanhong Qiu

    Research Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 12198 - 12214

    

24. Calcium affecting protein expression in longan under simulated acid rain stress

    • Tengfei Pan
    • Yongyu Li
    • Dongliang Qiu

    Research Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 12215 - 12223

    

25. Exposure of Chlamys farreri to tetrabromobisphenol A: accumulation and multibiomarker responses

    • Fengxiao Hu
    • Luqing Pan
    • Qian Jin

    Research Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 12224 - 12234

    

26. Fate of parasites and pathogenic bacteria in an anaerobic hybrid reactor followed by downflow hanging sponge system treating domestic wastewater

    • A. Tawfik
    • T. El-Zamel
    • G. El-Taweel

    Research Article 21 April 2015 Pages: 12235 - 12245

    

27. Identification of aerosol types over Indo-Gangetic Basin: implications to optical properties and associated radiative forcing

    • S. Tiwari
    • A. K. Srivastava
    • Sachchidanand Singh

    Research Article 21 April 2015 Pages: 12246 - 12260

    

28. Toxic metals in topsoil under different land uses from Xiandao District, middle China: distribution, relationship with soil characteristics, and health risk assessment

    • Fei Li
    • Jinhui Huang
    • Yan He

    Research Article 21 April 2015 Pages: 12261 - 12275

    

29. Identification of the sources of metal (lead) contamination in drinking waters in north-eastern Tasmania using lead isotopic compositions.

    • P. J. Harvey
    • H. K. Handley
    • M. P. Taylor

    Research Article 22 April 2015 Pages: 12276 - 12288

    

30. Effect of oxygen content on the thermal desorption of polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated soil

    • Jie Liu
    • Zhifu Qi
    • Mingjiang Ni

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12289 - 12297

    

31. Evaluation of a permeable reactive barrier to capture and degrade hydrocarbon contaminants

    • K. A. Mumford
    • S. M. Powell
    • G. W. Stevens

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12298 - 12308

    

32. Maneb disturbs expression of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase, increases reactive oxygen species production, and induces genotoxicity in liver of adult mice

    • Ibtissem Ben Amara
    • Hajer Ben Saad
    • Najiba Zeghal

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12309 - 12322

    

33. Blood cadmium burden and the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case–control study in Chinese Chaoshan population

    • Lin Peng
    • Xiaoling Wang
    • Kusheng Wu

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12323 - 12331

34. Distribution and abundance of Ostreopsis spp. and associated species (Dinophyceae) in the northwestern Mediterranean: the region and the macroalgal substrate matter

    • Aurélie Blanfuné
    • Charles François Boudouresque
    • Thierry Thibaut

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12332 - 12346

    

35. Modeling total phosphorus removal in an aquatic environment restoring horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland based on artificial neural networks

    • Wei Li
    • Yan Zhang
    • Yifei Wang

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12347 - 12354

    

36. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the largest deepwater port of East China Sea: impact of port construction and operation

    • Juan-Ying Li
    • Yu Cui
    • Ling Jin

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12355 - 12365

    

37. Environmental risk assessment of CRT and PCB workshops in a mobile e-waste recycling plant

    • Qingbin Song
    • Xianlai Zeng
    • Wenyi Yuan

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12366 - 12373

    

38. Photochemical degradation of PAHs in estuarine surface water: effects of DOM, salinity, and suspended particulate matter

    • Jing Shang
    • Jing Chen
    • Aidong Ruan

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12374 - 12383

    

39. Approaches for controlling air pollutants and their environmental impacts generated from coal-based electricity generation in China

    • Changqing Xu
    • Jinglan Hong
    • Xueliang Yuan

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12384 - 12395

    

40. Estimation of lead in biological samples of oral cancer patients chewing smokeless tobacco products by ionic liquid-based microextraction in a single syringe system

    • Sadaf S. Arain
    • Tasneem G. Kazi
    • Mariam S. Arain

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12396 - 12406

    

41. The reduced bioavailability of copper by nano-TiO₂ attenuates the toxicity to Microcystis aeruginosa

    • Jinyuan Chen
    • Yi Qian
    • Meirong Zhao

    Research Article 23 April 2015 Pages: 12407 - 12414

    

42. Levels of perfluorinated compounds in human breast milk in Jordan: the impact of sociodemographic characteristics

    • Nihaya A. Al-sheyab
    • Khaled M. Al-Qudah
    • Yahya R. Tahboub

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12415 - 12423

    

43. Effects of tire rubber ash and zinc sulfate on crop productivity and cadmium accumulation in five rice cultivars under field conditions

    • Shah Fahad
    • Saddam Hussain
    • Jianliang Huang

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12424 - 12434

    

44. Earthworms as agents for ecotoxicity in roxarsone-contaminated soil ecosystem: a modeling study of ultrastructure and proteomics

    • Ruizi Guo
    • Xueyao Ding
    • Yongxue Sun

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12435 - 12449

    

45. Effects of coarse chalk dust particles (2.5–10 μm) on respiratory burst and oxidative stress in alveolar macrophages

    • Yuexia Zhang
    • Zhenhua Yang
    • Chuan Dong

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12450 - 12457

    

46. Speciation of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present during fog time collected submicron particles

    • Dharmendra Kumar Singh
    • Swati Sharma
    • Tarun Gupta

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12458 - 12468

    

47. A new method and tool for detection and quantification of PM oxidative potential

    • Francesco Ciriello
    • Maurizio Gualtieri
    • Paolo Parenti

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12469 - 12478

    

48. Rhizobial symbiosis effect on the growth, metal uptake, and antioxidant responses of Medicago lupulina under copper stress

    • Zhaoyu Kong
    • Osama Abdalla Mohamad
    • Gehong Wei

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12479 - 12489

    

49. Distribution and enrichment of mercury in Tibetan lake waters and their relations with the natural environment

    • Chengding Li
    • Qianggong Zhang
    • Zhiyuan Cong

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12490 - 12500

    

50. Assessment of the non-protein amino acid BMAA in Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis after feeding with estuarine cyanobacteria

    • Mafalda S. Baptista
    • Rita G. W. Vasconcelos
    • Vitor M. Vasconcelos

    Research Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 12501 - 12510