AIMC Topic: Biodegradation, Environmental

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Synergistic microbial consortia in the bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated wastewater: mechanisms and sustainability perspectives.

Environmental geochemistry and health
Heavy metals (HMs) are mostly toxic to all forms of life and are tenacious environmental pollutants. Rapid industrialization, urban development, and unsustainable agricultural implications lead to their accumulation in soil and water ecosystems, prom...

Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Accelerate Discoveries on Mealworm Larvae and Plastic Degradation.

Environmental science & technology
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming broad research areas, yet concerns about their trustworthiness remain. This study explored the use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve LLMs' knowledge extraction in the field of mealworm-me...

Pioneering approaches to plastic biodegradation and upcycling for sustainability.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Plastic pollution has become one of the most significant threats to the environment and human health of the twenty-first century, with more than 300 million tons of waste generated annually, and conventional disposal methods are inadequate. To addres...

Advances in microplastic mitigation: current progress and future directions.

Archives of microbiology
Microplastics transport toxins, disrupt microbial and nutrient cycles, bioaccumulate to cause oxidative stress and endocrine disruption, jeopardizing ecosystems and human health. Despite understanding microplastic origins, distribution, and microbial...

Advances in microbial biotechnology for sustainable wastewater reclamation: recent trends and future prospects.

World journal of microbiology & biotechnology
The growing demand for freshwater, coupled with the increasing volume of industrial and municipal wastewater, has intensified the need for sustainable and eco-friendly reclamation strategies. Recent advancements in microbial biotechnology have emerge...

Assessment of ceramic rings and k1 biofilter as carriers in phenol and COD removal using SB-MBBR using machine learning and statistical technique.

Biodegradation
This investigation evaluates the performance of a sequencing batch moving bed biofilm reactor (SB-MBBR) employing Ceramic Rings and K1 biofilters as biofilm carriers for the removal of phenol and chemical oxygen demand (COD) from synthetic landfill l...

Microalgae-based bioremediation of emerging contaminants: techniques, recent developments, and future perspectives.

Archives of microbiology
Rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, and agricultural chemical fertilizer expansion have raised concerns over the accumulation and biomagnification of recalcitrant and emerging contaminants. Often, these compounds are resistant to degradation, and ...

Anaerobic microbial degradation of persistent organic pollutants in aquatic sediments: implications of climate change.

Archives of microbiology
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are harmful chemicals that resist degradation and remain in the environment for a long time. These pollutants originate from various sources, such as industrial, agricultural, and waste disposal. They contaminate ...

Bacterial cellulose for emerging contaminants: A review of applications for PFAS, nanoplastics, and endocrine disruptors in water treatment.

The Science of the total environment
Emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), nanoplastics, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), pose significant threats to water quality due to their persistence, toxicity, and resistance to conventional treatme...

New chemicals fuel the evolution of microbial biodegradation.

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR
Most known chemicals originate from humans, thousands enter industrial usage annually, and new chemicals pose a continuous challenge to microbial evolution. The evolution of microbes to biodegrade new chemicals is crucial in protecting human and ecos...