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{"title":"Labor mobility buffers cascading supply-chain losses from occupational heat stress","authors":"Qianzi Wang,&nbsp;Qi Zhou,&nbsp;Shen Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Escalating global temperatures threaten economic stability by worsening occupational heat stress and reducing workforce productivity. Despite advancements in macroeconomic modeling, current risk assessments rely on coarse annual aggregations and ignore internal labor mobility, thereby masking highly unequal sub-national vulnerabilities and underestimating how labor mobility buffers cascading supply-chain losses. Here we present a high-resolution, agent-based dynamic supply chain network model that integrates empirical daily mobility data across 313 Chinese cities to quantify the spatiotemporal cascading economic impacts of occupational heat exposure. We show that annual heat stress costs China 2933.5 billion CNY (2.6% of GDP), with systemic propagation through supply chains driving 59% of these losses. Crucially, labor mobility redistributes risk: net labor inflows into industrialized, high-heat southeastern regions provide a factor-compensation effect that buffers cascading losses by offsetting direct local productivity shocks, saving a net 7.2 billion CNY directly and 24.6 billion CNY indirectly nationwide. Under a 2030 warming scenario (SSP3-7.0), total losses expand 1.6-fold to 4672.9 billion CNY, though integrated multi-level adaptations—combining industrial restructuring with work-hour shifting—can mitigate these future losses by 30%. These findings reveal that demographic mobility dictates the economic geometry of climate vulnerability, highlighting that resilient climate adaptation requires synchronized network-level interventions rather than isolated local policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100727"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13355723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148424971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bioelectricity-driven forward osmosis for energy-neutral nutrient and water recovery","authors":"Jinyu Liu,&nbsp;Xiong Bi,&nbsp;Zefang Huang,&nbsp;Bingxin Li,&nbsp;Yichuan Zhu,&nbsp;Lijie Zhang,&nbsp;Wen Zhang,&nbsp;Heyang Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wastewater treatment is shifting from simply removing pollutants to recovering valuable resources. Although membrane and bioelectrochemical technologies are promising tools for this transition, they typically operate independently and rely heavily on external power, limiting their scalability. Here we develop an energy-neutral system that couples electrically assisted forward osmosis (eFO) with a microbial desalination cell (MDC) to autonomously extract nutrients and water recovery from wastewater. Bioelectricity generated from organic oxidation in the MDC (&gt;7.0 mW) directly powers the eFO module (&lt;1.0 mW). This internal energy transfer drives magnesium ion migration to trigger struvite precipitation, boosting nutrient recovery by 184% and water flux by 57% compared to standalone operations. Using a hybrid model to optimize these complex dynamics, our closed-loop design sustains ideal concentration gradients and improves total desalination efficiency by 45%. By eliminating the need for external grids, this self-powered framework offers a practical and scalable blueprint for zero-energy wastewater refineries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100730"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148476777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From sustainable development to enduring development: Renewing ecological, social, and human foundations","authors":"Zuyi Xia (Vice Chair and Secretary-General)","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100725"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13315770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148362736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deep learning decodes multi-horizon dynamics and probabilistic risks of harmful algal blooms","authors":"Ke Yu,&nbsp;Bo Nie,&nbsp;Fengming Zhang,&nbsp;Huan Zhang,&nbsp;Qi Zhou,&nbsp;Renke Wei,&nbsp;Shen Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Harmful algal blooms are expanding globally across freshwater ecosystems due to climate change and accelerating eutrophication, posing escalating threats to public health and economic stability. Robust early warning requires predictive frameworks that are accurate at hourly resolution, uncertainty-aware, and mechanistically interpretable. Existing process-based models are limited by sparse parameterization, while statistical and deep-learning approaches typically operate at daily resolution, produce only point predictions, and rely on threshold-based classifications or post-hoc explanations that fail to capture high-frequency temporal dynamics or quantify predictive uncertainty, thereby hindering proactive intervention and masking hidden ecological risks. Here we present BloomNet, an intrinsically interpretable deep neural network architecture configured for multi-horizon quantile forecasting, resolves these limitations by integrating future environmental covariates with historical observations from a hyper-eutrophic lake. Evaluated on a four-year hourly record, BloomNet achieves exceptional predictive stability across 24-, 48-, and 72-h horizons (<em>R</em>² up to 0.78, 24-h <em>MAPE</em> = 25.7%), outperforming long short-term memory, Transformer, and temporal convolutional network baselines while circumventing iterative error accumulation. The network's dual-path variable-selection and attention mechanisms decode shifting ecological drivers directly across horizons, revealing a transition from short-term thermal regulation (water temperature weight up to 0.640) to medium-term nutrient governance (total phosphorus weight up to 0.689), while isolating distinct multimodal attention spikes 24h prior to bloom onset. Real-time interpretability further reveals that driver importance and temporal dependencies shift dynamically between bloom-onset and non-bloom states. These probabilistic quantiles establish a graduated, risk-oriented warning protocol that transforms reactive water resource administration into precision ecotechnology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100733"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148634381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In-sewer microplastics drive microbial metabolic shifts toward enhanced methanogenesis","authors":"Yaxin Wang,&nbsp;Xiuhong Liu,&nbsp;Zhipeng Zhang,&nbsp;Ruxian Jing,&nbsp;Xiaoyin Zhao,&nbsp;Weipeng Han,&nbsp;Chenduo Huang,&nbsp;Qing Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microplastics (MPs) in sewer systems can be transported extensively before entering wastewater treatment plants. Sewer systems harbor complex microbial communities under low-oxygen, sulfide-rich conditions that drive key biogeochemical cycles. These conditions drive microplastic aging, whereas these particles concurrently perturb sewer microbial ecology and metabolic functions. However, the underlying mechanisms of in-sewer microplastic aging and their subsequent impacts on sewer microbiomes remain unclear. Here we show that hydroxyl radicals preferentially attack ester bonds (C–O) in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) MPs, increasing surface roughness, reducing particle size, promoting surface oxidation, and ultimately inducing polymer chain scission. Exposure to PET and PBAT MPs at 30–500 particles L⁻¹ intensified oxidative stress, disrupted membrane integrity and permeability, impaired microbial activity, and suppressed sulfide production in a dose-dependent manner. These disruptions coincided with weakened microbial co-occurrence networks and a shift from stochastic toward deterministic community assembly. High doses of PET and PBAT MPs reduced hydrolytic/fermentative bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria by up to 63.4% and 49.7%, respectively, while enriching hydrogen-producing acetogenic bacteria and methanogenic archaea by 48.4–67.0%, consistent with reduced sulfidogenic potential and enhanced methanogenic potential. Changes in genes related to antioxidant defense, SOS response, quorum sensing (e.g., <em>sod</em>A, <em>kat</em>G, <em>lex</em>A, and <em>lux</em>S), and redox signaling suggested potential mechanisms of microbial metabolic perturbations aggravated by PET and PBAT MPs. Our results indicate that sewer systems are not passive conduits but active reactors that promote MP aging, and that MPs reshape microbial functions. Microplastic control may therefore help reduce downstream particle pollution and limit perturbations to urban sewage biogeochemistry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100726"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13319378/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148370092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coupled biogenic and soil emissions amplify heatwave-driven secondary pollution","authors":"Peng Wang,&nbsp;Wenxuan Yu,&nbsp;Zhaolei Zhang,&nbsp;Miao Feng,&nbsp;Meng Gao,&nbsp;Chunfeng Tian,&nbsp;Yiheng Wang,&nbsp;Alex Guenther,&nbsp;Yuqiang Zhang,&nbsp;Zhijin Li,&nbsp;Pingqing Fu,&nbsp;Gregory R. Carmichael,&nbsp;Hongliang Zhang,&nbsp;Jianmin Chen,&nbsp;Renhe Zhang,&nbsp;Drew Shindell","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100720","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global air pollution policies have drastically lowered anthropogenic emissions, yet climate change threatens regional air quality through poorly understood natural feedbacks. Extreme heat accelerates biogenic volatile organic compound and soil nitrogen emissions, fueling ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation. Although standalone impacts of these biogenic sources are documented, chemical interactions between co-elevated vegetation and soil fluxes remain unconstrained. Here we show that a temperature-driven synergistic mechanism between biogenic terpenoids and soil nitrogen emissions severely exacerbated secondary air pollution during China's unprecedented 2022 heatwave. Integrating ground observations, satellite data, and chemical transport modeling, we demonstrate that a massive surge in biogenic terpenoids enhances atmospheric oxidation capacity by generating reactive peroxy radicals. These radicals accelerate the conversion of soil nitric oxide to nitrogen dioxide without consuming ozone, driving a 21% regional ozone increase across the Yangtze River Basin and boosting secondary organic aerosol loads by up to 4 μg m⁻³. These findings reveal a potent natural feedback loop that counteracts anthropogenic mitigation gains, underscoring the necessity of integrating coupled ecological dynamics into future climate adaptation and pollution control strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100720"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13355211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148424992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decade-scale contrasts in sediment metal(loid)s across Qinghai–Xizang Plateau lakes","authors":"Jun Chen,&nbsp;Ziyao Zhou,&nbsp;Libo Chen,&nbsp;Chengshuo Hua,&nbsp;Xuebin Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100723","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100723","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lake sediments on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau capture shifting metal(loid) dynamics within an alpine ecosystem uniquely vulnerable to climate change and anthropogenic pressures. However, plateau-wide ecological risk assessments incorporating quantitative source apportionment remain scarce, leaving a critical gap that hinders targeted ecosystem conservation and precise policy interventions. Here we present a plateau-scale analysis of sediment geochemistry across 110 lakes over two decadal periods (2014 and 2024), utilizing a hybrid positive matrix factorization–random forest framework. Arsenic serves as the primary diagnostic sentinel, persistently exceeding baseline thresholds across both decades. Although mean chromium concentrations declined from 85.7 to 68.0 mg kg⁻¹, the broader multi-metal pool exhibits remarkable regional stability, with low baseline ecological risks dominated by cadmium toxicity alongside localized high-risk anomalies in Lakes Tosu, Gahai, and Xiligou. Hybrid source apportionment demonstrates that a mixed footprint of transport emissions, transboundary atmospheric influx, and lithogenic weathering increasingly drives geochemical variance, surging from 44% to 66% over ten years, whereas the independent arsenic source remains invariant at approximately 15%. These patterns reveal that while natural weathering constrains the regional background, localized anthropogenic signatures are rapidly intensifying around emerging infrastructure corridors. This predictive framework establishes a transferable template for tracking contaminant dynamics in vulnerable alpine headwaters, providing a vital baseline for targeted, source-specific mitigation globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100723"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13311183/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148353890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disturbance intensity shapes universal and context-dependent functional traits in anaerobic microbiomes","authors":"Abeed F. Mohidin,&nbsp;Soheil A. Neshat,&nbsp;Ezequiel Santillan,&nbsp;Stefan Wuertz","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Trait-based frameworks, notably Grime's competitor–stress-tolerant–ruderal theory, offer a powerful lens for predicting how environmental fluctuations govern community structure. Yet, classical ecological models assume environments combining extreme stress and intense disturbance are non-viable for sustained colonisation, leaving a critical bottleneck in our ability to predict how microbial systems withstand compounded operational pressures. This gap severely hinders the predictive management of engineered microbiomes critical for global waste-to-energy conversion. Here we extend the application of classic ecological frameworks by demonstrating that anaerobic digester microbiomes deploy distinct, predictable life-history strategies across a 182-day compounded gradient of biomass turnover and organic loading. High-intensity single-event disturbances drive severe volatile fatty acid accumulation (propionate reaching 2,955 mg L⁻¹), selectively shifting the microbiome toward stress-tolerant and stress-tolerant–ruderal strategies. Traits associated with ribosome function, molecular chaperones, and enzymatic reactive oxygen species detoxification were particularly enriched under highly disturbed conditions. Conversely, intermediate regimes were associated with ruderal strategies that prioritise rapid growth over resource-uptake efficiency, dropping total chemical oxygen demand removal to 41%. Cross-system comparisons encompassing anaerobic digestion, activated sludge, and soil ecosystems, revealed both universal and context-dependent ecological traits. Survival-associated traits linked to cell maintenance and repair, protective mechanisms, and cell motility were universally associated with stress-tolerant or ruderal strategies across ecosystems, whereas nutrient transport and metabolic traits exhibited greater context dependency. These insights establish a gene-resolved framework that reconciles microbial trait selection with ecological theory, providing a roadmap to engineer microbiome resilience against process failures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100729"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13355828/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148424943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reply to: Beyond carbon sequestration: The critical oversight of emission avoidance in restoration of wetland ecosystems","authors":"Csaba Tölgyesi,&nbsp;Nándor Csikós,&nbsp;Vicky M. Temperton,&nbsp;Elise Buisson,&nbsp;Fernando A.O. Silveira,&nbsp;Caroline E.R. Lehmann,&nbsp;Péter Török,&nbsp;Zoltán Bátori,&nbsp;Ákos Bede-Fazekas","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100721","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100721"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13285710/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148309624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global microplastic pollution poses a disproportionate reproductive threat to critically endangered marine fishes","authors":"Chunhui Liu,&nbsp;Xiangang Hu,&nbsp;Ruiqi Wang,&nbsp;Xiaofan Li,&nbsp;Peng Deng,&nbsp;Qian Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2026.100732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microplastic pollution is ubiquitous across the global ocean, threatening marine ecosystems. While environmental baselines often treat contamination as a temporally uniform stressor, the reproductive period represents the most physiologically vulnerable window in the life cycle of marine fishes. However, it remains unknown how seasonal reproductive aggregations spatiotemporally interact with microplastic accumulation hotspots and vector-driven co-contaminants at a global scale. Here we show that the spatiotemporal overlap between peak spawning and pollution intensity poses a disproportionate threat to marine fish communities, particularly critically endangered species. Integrating 6327 seawater microplastic observations and reproductive traits of 992 species across 65 large marine ecosystems, we reveal that microplastic-mediated vector effects for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and perfluorooctane sulfonate peak precisely during the critical spring spawning window, amplifying synergistic bio-risks by up to 42.3%. This reproductive-period vulnerability is exacerbated by climate-driven warming and hypoxia, which synergistically maximize microplastic bioconcentration factors, leading critically endangered fishes to endure compound vector exposures nine times higher than least-concern taxa. With 7.8% of global critical spawning grounds currently exceeding ecological safety thresholds, these findings fundamentally challenge existing static conservation paradigms. Explicitly incorporating these seasonal life-cycle dimensions into global marine management is imperative to safeguard threatened biodiversity and fisheries sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100732"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13396896/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148585332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}