Unsustainable mining practices have led to severe ecosystem degradation in mining areas. Ecological restoration plays a crucial role in reinstating the ecosystem service functions of these areas. A monetary evaluation of the ecosystem service value g...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Nov 3, 2025
Wetland ecosystems in Africa's semi-arid rift valleys are crucial for supporting biodiversity, regulating water systems, and sustaining livelihoods; however, they are rapidly deteriorating due to agricultural expansion and urbanization. Previous asse...
Covering mine tailings with uncontaminated soil is a common strategy to mitigate environmental impacts and promote ecosystem recovery during post-mining land reclamation. Topsoil is often stockpiled for future use as a capping layer, but prolonged st...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Oct 7, 2025
This narrative review examines the significant advances of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing the identification and microbial degradation of environmentally persistent compounds, addressing major issues in pollution monitoring and management....
This study aimed to investigate the release and attenuation mechanisms of Cr(VI) in a shallow aquifer system and evaluate the remediation performance of a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) in central China. A hydrogeochemical and machine learning fram...
Site-specific arsenic (As) bioaccessibility data can improve the accuracy of health risk assessments, but direct measurements are costly and time-consuming. Even when available, measured values such as the mean still yield remediation targets below n...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
May 30, 2025
Plastic pollution and contamination originates from raw material handling, polymerization, compounding, and fabrication, contributing to environmental accumulation. Advanced analytical techniques such as Fourier transform infrared, Raman spectroscopy...
Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) technologies have significantly enhanced their applications in environmental sciences, particularly in the domains of soil and water remediation. This paper reviews recent studies that employ ML to optimiz...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jan 4, 2025
Scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of ecological restoration could provide support for sustainable management and protection of wetlands. However, due to the multiple and difficult to quantify factors affecting wetlands, commonly used spatiot...
Plastic pollution is an extreme environmental threat, necessitating novel restoration solutions. The present investigation investigates the integration of machine learning (ML) techniques with catalytic degradation processes to improve plastic waste ...
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