1. Assessing the nexus between COVID-19 pandemic–driven economic crisis and economic policy: lesson learned and challenges

   • Lei Chang
   • Muhammad Mohsin
   • Wasim Iqbal

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22145 - 22158

2. Energy transition determinants in the European Union: threshold effects

   • Sakine Owjimehr
   • Ali Hussein Samadi

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22159 - 22175

   

3. The combined effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and cypermethrin on male reproductive toxicity in rats

   • Yuxin Li
   • Mingqing Zhong
   • Qingfeng Zhai

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22176 - 22187

   

4. Carbon dioxide sequestration of iron ore mining waste under low-reaction condition of a direct mineral carbonation process

   • Faradiella Mohd Kusin
   • Sharifah Nur Munirah Syed Hasan
   • Shamsuddin Jusop

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22188 - 22210

   

5. Carbon capture of biochar produced by microwave co-pyrolysis: adsorption capacity, kinetics, and benefits

   • Yu-Fong Huang
   • Pei-Te Chiueh
   • Shang-Lien Lo

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22211 - 22221

   

6. Blood and urine manganese exposure in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and advanced liver fibrosis: an observational study

   • Jie Liu
   • Liao Tan
   • Ruizheng Shi

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22222 - 22231

   

7. Preparation of controlled low-strength materials from alkali-excited red mud-slag-iron tailings sand and a study of the reaction mechanism

   • Mingyang Jiang
   • Yafeng Qian
   • Qi Sun

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22232 - 22248

   

8. The impact of cross-shareholding under different power structures considering green investment and green marketing

   • Hao Liu
   • Sheng Wu
   • Yuqing Fan

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22249 - 22261

   

9. Photocatalytic soot degradation under UV and visible light

   • Myrthe Van Hal
   • Silvia Lenaerts
   • Sammy W. Verbruggen

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22262 - 22272

   

10. Study on the biodegradability improvement of 2,4 dinitrophenol in wastewater using advanced oxidation/reduction process with UV/SO₃/ZnO

    • Hasti Daraei
    • Alok Mittal
    • Asna Mariyam

    Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 22273 - 22283

    

11. Degradation mechanism of ammonia nitrogen synergistic with bromate under UV or UV/TiO₂

    • Yiting Zeng
    • Jin Zeng
    • Chunying Wang

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22284 - 22295

    

12. Environmental sustainability through renewable energy and banking sector development: policy implications for N-11 countries

    • Usman Mehmood

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22296 - 22304

    

13. Remediation of soils on municipal rendering plant territories using Miscanthus × giganteus

    • Anna Grzegórska
    • Natalia Czaplicka
    • Andrzej Rogala

    Research Article Open access 26 October 2022 Pages: 22305 - 22318

    

14. Long-term projection of future climate change over the twenty-first century in the Sahara region in Africa under four Shared Socio-Economic Pathways scenarios

    • Qingchun Guo
    • Zhenfang He
    • Zhaosheng Wang

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22319 - 22329

    

15. Neglected skin-associated microbial communities: a unique immune defense strategy of Bufo raddei under environmental heavy metal pollution

    • Rui Su
    • Sheng Zhang
    • Wenya Zhang

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22330 - 22342

    

16. Estimating the carbon footprint of household activities in Japan from the time-use perspective

    • Yida Jiang
    • Ryoko Motose
    • Tomohiko Ihara

    Research Article Open access 26 October 2022 Pages: 22343 - 22374

    

17. Emergy-based sustainability measurement and evaluation of industrial production systems

    • Cuixia Zhang
    • Cui Wang
    • Conghu Liu

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22375 - 22387

    

18. Easy-handling semi-floating TiO₂-based aerogel for solar photocatalytic water depollution

    • Sana Nouacer
    • Ridha Djellabi

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22388 - 22395

    

19. Applicability of hybrid bionic optimization models with kernel-based extreme learning machine algorithm for predicting daily reference evapotranspiration: a case study in arid and semiarid regions, China

    • Long Zhao
    • Xinbo Zhao
    • Xuguang Xing

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22396 - 22412

    

20. Anti-angiogenic effects of aqueous extract from Agrostemma githago L. seed in human umbilical vein endothelial cells via regulating Notch/VEGF, MMP2/9, ANG2, and VEGFR2

    • Ali Niapour
    • Mansour Miran
    • Firouz Norouzi

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22413 - 22429

    

21. Fresh evidence on connectedness between prominent markets during COVID-19 pandemic

    • Ijaz Younis
    • Besma Hkiri
    • Cheng Longsheng

    Research Article 26 October 2022 Pages: 22430 - 22457

    

22. Study on microstructure and extinction characteristics of particulate matter in diesel engine fueled with different biodiesels

    • Siqi Ye
    • Dengpan Zhang
    • Yinnan Yuan

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22458 - 22470

    

23. Immobilization of Cd²⁺ and Pb²⁺ by biomineralization of the carbonate mineralized bacterial consortium JZ1

    • Peng Zhang
    • Xiao-Qiang Liu
    • Ting Fan

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22471 - 22482

    

24. Synthesis of porous hydroxysodalite from aluminosilicate rich clay soils: application towards fluoride and pathogen removal

    • Wilson Mugera Gitari
    • Olumuyiwa Adewale Obijole
    • Rabelani Mudzielwana

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22483 - 22493

    

25. Will bidirectional FDI impact industrial electricity efficiency in China?

    • Feng Yang
    • Zongbin Zhang

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22494 - 22508

    

26. Environmental factors and its influence on human health in BRICS: implications for human development

    • Wenxin Wang
    • Muhammad Hafeez
    • Raufhon Salahodjaev

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22509 - 22519

27. Combining Lattice Boltzmann method and genetic algorithm to optimize the layout of artificial floating islands in river network in China

    • Yu Bai
    • Yizhou Xiao
    • Guojin Sun

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22520 - 22531

    

28. A decision fusion method based on classification models for water quality monitoring

    • Mohamed Ladjal
    • Mohamed Bouamar
    • Mohamed Djerioui

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22532 - 22549

    

29. Cerebellar injury induced by cadmium via disrupting the heat-shock response

    • Shao-Shuai Bi
    • Milton Talukder
    • Jin-Long Li

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22550 - 22559

    

30. Removal of pathogens from greywater using green roofs combined with chlorination

    • Ioanna Petousi
    • Vasiliki Thomaidi
    • Michail S. Fountoulakis

    Research Article Open access 27 October 2022 Pages: 22560 - 22569

    

31. An empirical study of innovation-led economic diversification in MENA oil exporters

    • Siham Matallah

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22570 - 22589

32. Kinetics of IO radicals with C1, C2 aliphatic alcohols in tropospherically relevant conditions

    • Koushik Mondal
    • Balla Rajakumar

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22590 - 22605

    

33. Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in a PCL-supported constructed wetland with limited aeration

    • Yuhui Wang
    • Panpan Zhou
    • Zhongshuo Xu

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22606 - 22616

    

34. Porous material based on modified carbon and the effect of pore size distribution on the adsorption of methylene blue dye from an aqueous solution

    • Anastasia Memetova
    • Inderjeet Tyagi
    • Ajay Kumar

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22617 - 22630

    

35. Modeling of energy and emissions from animal manure using machine learning methods: the case of the Western Mediterranean Region, Turkey

    • Ihsan Pence
    • Kazım Kumaş
    • Ali Akyüz

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22631 - 22652

    

36. Towards sustainable environment: why green energy technology diffusion is sluggish in South Africa?

    • Gul Jabeen
    • Munir Ahmad
    • Qingyu Zhang

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22653 - 22667

    

37. Exploring the impact of rural labor transfer on the production and ecological sustainability of crop planting structure in China

    • Wei Chen
    • Qian Wang
    • Weiwei Zheng

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22668 - 22685

    

38. Does the potency of economic globalization and political instability reshape renewable energy usage in the face of environmental degradation?

    • Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi
    • Husam Rjoub
    • Dervis Kirikkaleli

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22686 - 22701

    

39. Green growth and environmental sustainability in China: the role of environmental taxes

    • Lei Yu
    • Xinwei Gao
    • Zubaria Andlib

    Research Article 27 October 2022 Pages: 22702 - 22711

40. Consumption of energy from conventional sources a challenge to the green environment: evaluating the role of energy imports, and energy intensity in Australia

    • Yasir Khan
    • Fang Liu

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22712 - 22727

    

41. Biomonitoring of unmetabolized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urine of waterpipe/cigarette café workers

    • Dariush Ranjbar Vakil Abadi
    • Masoumeh Tahmasbizadeh
    • Yousef Poureshgh

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22728 - 22742

    

42. Water resource carrying capacity and obstacle factors in the Yellow River basin based on the RBF neural network model

    • Xinrui Sun
    • Zixuan Zhou
    • Yong Wang

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22743 - 22759

    

43. Comparison of metabolome profiles in zebrafish (Danio rerio) intestine induced by polystyrene microplastics with different sizes

    • Jing Yu
    • Weiqing Gu
    • Bing Wu

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22760 - 22771

    

44. Iron plaque effects on selenium and cadmium stabilization in Cd-contaminated seleniferous rice seedlings

    • Hongyu Zhang
    • Shuyun Xie
    • Feng Xu

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22772 - 22786

    

45. Investigating global surface temperature from the perspectives of environmental, demographic, and economic indicators: current status and future temperature trend

    • Mansoor Ahmed
    • Huiling Song
    • Maqsood Ahmed

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22787 - 22807

    

46. Association between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and number of outpatient Helicobacter pylori infection visits

    • Lizuo Ma
    • Zhijing Lin
    • Jiehua Li

    Research Article 28 October 2022 Pages: 22808 - 22815

    

47. Modeling runoff-sediment influx responses to alternative BMP interventions in the Gojeb watershed, Ethiopia, using the SWAT hydrological model

    • Yilikal Anteneh
    • Tena Alamirew
    • Tibebu Kassawmar

    Research Article 29 October 2022 Pages: 22816 - 22834

    

48. Concurrent sorption of antimony and lead by iron phosphate and its possible application for multi-oxyanion contaminated soil

    • Han Na Kim
    • Jin Hee Park

    Research Article 29 October 2022 Pages: 22835 - 22842

    

49. When will China’s total water consumption reach the turning point? EKC simulation and influencing factors

    • Hengquan Zhang
    • Zhibo Long
    • Chenjun Zhang

    Research Article 29 October 2022 Pages: 22843 - 22862

    

50. Groundwater level response identification by hybrid wavelet–machine learning conjunction models using meteorological data

    • Saeideh Samani
    • Meysam Vadiati
    • Ozgur Kisi

    Research Article 29 October 2022 Pages: 22863 - 22884