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{"title":"Early-life residential greenness and sleep disturbances in preschoolers across 551 cities of China","authors":"Yang Shen ,&nbsp;Yan Zhao ,&nbsp;Xia Meng ,&nbsp;Kexin Yu ,&nbsp;Gareth J. Williams ,&nbsp;Wenchong Du ,&nbsp;Jing Cai ,&nbsp;Haidong Kan ,&nbsp;Jing Hua","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The nexus between early-life residential greenness and sleep health in children remains underexplored. This research investigated associations of early-life greenness exposure with sleep outcomes among 101,879 preschoolers from 551 Chinese cities. Sleep status was evaluated using the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). Greenness was estimated using satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) surrounding participants' home during pregnancy and post-birth period. Linear mixed-effect and random-effects logistic regression models were used to assess associations of greenness with CSHQ scores and sleep disturbance, respectively. Mediation effects of air pollution and residential distance to major roads were examined. Both prenatal and postnatal greenness exposures were significantly associated with better sleep outcomes. Specifically, an interquartile range increment in NDVI within the 250-m buffer during the entire pregnancy and from birth to investigation was associated with reductions in the total CSHQ score by 0.21 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.14, 0.28) and 0.22 (95% CI: 0.15, 0.29), respectively. Corresponding odds ratios for sleep disturbance were 0.96 (95% CI: 0.94, 0.98) for both periods. These associations remained consistent when considering larger buffers (500-m and 1000-m), and employing other greenness metrics like EVI and growing-season NDVI. The association between postnatal greenness exposure and sleep disturbance was partially mediated by PM_2.5, residential distance to major roads, NO₂, and SO₂. Children living in Northern China, breastfed for &lt;6 months, or with more educated mothers showed greater benefits from greenness. Increased early-life greenness exposure appears to positively influence childhood sleep health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Synergistic strategies for pollution and carbon emission reduction in China's wastewater treatment: A comprehensive tiered assessment and benchmarking framework","authors":"Xiaoshu Hou ,&nbsp;Yuchen Deng ,&nbsp;Lu Qin ,&nbsp;Xin Xie ,&nbsp;Yilan Sun ,&nbsp;Gang Yan ,&nbsp;Miao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China's dual-carbon goals challenges wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), requiring integrated pollution control and carbon emission reduction. Critical gaps hinder China's strategies for WWTPs, particularly in identifying upgrade needs, optimizing performance, and assessing the local benchmark plants as references. This study addresses these gaps through greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting and impact factor analysis, using monthly data from 2232 WWTPs across China. A tiered assessment methodology was developed to evaluate the synergy between pollution reduction and carbon mitigation, including indicators, methodologies, and assessment criteria. Results indicate that indirect emissions from electricity and chemical consumption accounted for 59.9% of total GHG emissions. Key factors influencing these indirect emissions included plant scale, treatment processes, geographic area, operational load, electricity consumption, and influent quality. Through the tiered assessment, WWTPs were classified into three categories: priority control (861 plants), general control (730 plants), and maintenance (641 plants). Furthermore, 222 benchmark plants were identified as exhibiting optimal synergy between pollution control and carbon reduction. For 80% of the benchmark plants, the ranges for carbon emission intensity, influent COD, influent C/N ratio, electricity consumption intensity, and operating load were 0.258–0.482 ​kg CO₂e/t, 175–338 ​mg/L, 6.13–10.9, 0.149–0.260 ​kWh per tonne of influent, and 88.0%–110%, respectively. Achieving these benchmark standards across all WWTPs could lead to a 30% reduction in total GHG emissions. Finally, the study proposes targeted policies to enhance the synergy between pollution control and carbon reduction strategies in China's urban wastewater treatment systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Five strategies to engage the Global South in energy transition dialogues","authors":"Muhammad Salar Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lead exposure in the 21st century: Modeling a path from crisis to prevention","authors":"Danlin Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144579998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global data center expansion and human health: A call for empirical research","authors":"Yu Tao ,&nbsp;Peng Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144557057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reinterpretation of a new ChatGPT-empowered, easy-to-use machine learning paradigm: An aide-memoire","authors":"Ilker Sengul ,&nbsp;Demet Sengul","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cadmium accumulation in wheat grain: Accumulation models and soil thresholds for safe production","authors":"Lu Lin ,&nbsp;Xiaopeng Zhao ,&nbsp;Yumeng Li ,&nbsp;Jingbo Ling ,&nbsp;Jinghua Ren ,&nbsp;Qilin Liao ,&nbsp;Dongmei Zhou ,&nbsp;Xueyuan Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The high cadmium (Cd) accumulation ability of wheat has garnered significant attention in China. It is crucial to identify the key factors affecting Cd accumulation in wheat and to develop predictive models to derive the threshold concentration of Cd in soil for safe wheat production. A total of 311 soil–wheat paired datasets were collected from both literature and field surveys in China, in which the ranges of Cd in soil and wheat grain were 0.068–13.500 ​mg/kg and 0.006–2.190 ​mg/kg, respectively. Correlation analyses and Partial Least Squares Path Model indicated that soil Cd, soil pH, and CEC together controlled the transfer of Cd from soil to wheat. Multiple linear regression models were successfully established using soil Cd contents or bioavailable Cd (extracted by CaCl₂ or calculated using a multi-surface speciation model), pH, and CEC as input variables to predict wheat Cd (RMSE ​= ​0.242–0.327, MAE ​= ​0.188–0.249). Furthermore, the Extreme Random Tree model (RMSE ​= ​0.221, MAE ​= ​0.165) outperformed the other seven machine learning algorithms. The thresholds for both soil total Cd and bioavailable Cd for safe wheat production were further back-calculated according to the permissible value of Cd in wheat grain, which demonstrated enhanced protection accuracy compared to the current soil quality standard. Our findings facilitate a quantitative assessment of Cd accumulation risk in wheat, offering a valuable reference for the safe production of wheat.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mechanistic insights into nitrogen removal performance and electron competition with mixed electron donor supply in a biofilm electrode reactor","authors":"Xin Yuan,&nbsp;Chunfang Chao,&nbsp;Jiaojiao Niu,&nbsp;Jinxin Song,&nbsp;Yiwen Liu,&nbsp;Siyuan Zhai,&nbsp;Yingxin Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, a unique electrode configuration in the form of an “inverted T” was developed in the biofilm electrode reactor (BER), enabling superior nitrogen removal via the synergistic effect of hydrogen autotrophic denitrification and heterotrophic denitrification. In contrast to the sole heterotrophic denitrification in the biofilm reactor (BR), weak electric stimulation in the BER system promoted <em>in situ</em> hydrogen production as well as electron transport and utilization, resulting in a notable 20% improvement in <span><math><mrow><msubsup><mtext>NO</mtext><mn>3</mn><mo>-</mo></msubsup></mrow></math></span> removal efficiency for both influent COD/N ratios. Conversely, notable <span><math><mrow><msubsup><mtext>NO</mtext><mn>2</mn><mo>-</mo></msubsup></mrow></math></span> accumulation occurred under both COD/N ratios, with concentrations ranging from 6.0 to 8.0 ​mg/L. The enrichment of non-heterotrophic denitrifiers, such as <em>Thermomonas, Pelomonas,</em> and <em>Hydrogenophaga,</em> was observed in the BER with a relative abundance exceeding 1.0%, contributing to the hydrogen autotrophic denitrification pathway. Based on the outcomes of the multiple electron donor utilization in the coexistence of different electron acceptor combinations, despite H₂ serving as an additional electron donor in the BER, electron competition was still detectable. Notably, nitrite reductase (Nir) emerged as the weakest competitor, resulting in a constrained <span><math><mrow><msubsup><mtext>NO</mtext><mn>2</mn><mo>-</mo></msubsup></mrow></math></span> reduction capacity. Based on the analysis of the electron competition characteristic, the potential <span><math><mrow><msubsup><mtext>NO</mtext><mn>3</mn><mo>-</mo></msubsup></mrow></math></span> metabolic pathway in the BER system was primarily driven by heterotrophic denitrification processes. The introduced electricity in the BER system was favorable for facilitating nitrogen removal through <em>in situ</em> production of hydrogen, direct supply of electrons from the electrode, improvement of functional microbial activity, and enhancement of enzymatic activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blue Hg Dilemma and implications for Nature-based Solution and One Health Approach","authors":"Zhijia Ci","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Park pricing in theory and practice and implications for ecosystem and human health","authors":"Krishnal Thirumarpan ,&nbsp;Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eehl.2025.100151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Though a rich literature addresses the theory of park pricing, less attention has been paid to the practical realities. In this narrative review article, we ask why the setting of national park entry fees varies in practice, and we link this back to the underlying theory, the empirical academic literature, and practical realities. Park entry pricing strategies tend to differ considerably in higher and lower-income countries, reflecting practical realities of how to fund a national park system. Parks in higher-income countries are often free at the point of entry, consistent with the efficient pricing of global public goods. In contrast, differential pricing for local and foreign tourists is common in lower-income countries, an example of price discrimination that increases overall park revenues. We highlight a number of areas for further research. First, the concept of fairness and equitable access is an important practical consideration, linked to who benefits from visiting parks versus who pays, but much more attention needs to be paid to this in the literature. Second, while there is increasing recognition of the importance of green spaces for health and well-being, the literature largely ignores how health considerations might influence park entry fees, suggesting that more research is needed at the nexus of pricing, health and well-being, and equitable access. Finally, many lower-income countries that have a high dependence on foreign visitor fees to fund their national park systems are vulnerable to global shocks, suggesting research is needed into how to increase long-term sustainability of funding sources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29813,"journal":{"name":"Eco-Environment & Health","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}