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{"title":"Beyond linear Thinking: Redefining chemical pollution impacts on biodiversity","authors":"Yingying Liu , Xiaowei Jin , Aibin Zhan , Jinbao Liao , Andrew C. Johnson , Jian Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100589","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100589"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144482461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Future-proofing CO2 mitigation towards a circular economy: A systematic review on process integration and advanced tools","authors":"Divya Baskaran ,&nbsp;Hun-Soo Byun","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100587","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100587","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mitigating carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, which are a principal contributor to global warming, necessitates prompt and proactive measures. This systematic review evaluates advanced process integration and optimization tools, highlighting the need for a circular economy paired with efficient waste management to achieve effective CO₂ reduction. We systematically examine, for the first time, the applications and limitations of pinch analysis, Process-graph (P-graph), artificial intelligence (AI), computer-aided sustainable design (CASD), Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor networks, and hierarchical blockchain frameworks. AI alone could save 2.6–5.3 gigatonnes of CO₂ by 2030, and its integration with CASD and IoT enables more sophisticated mitigation strategies. We recommend comprehensive carbon-offset frameworks and green-finance mechanisms to strengthen carbon-trading systems. Circular-economy measures for waste-driven CO₂ reduction remain under-represented in national climate policies owing to cross-sectoral complexity. Future work should advance interdisciplinary tools data science, system modeling, and decision-support frameworks and expand economic-feasibility studies of optimization strategies. Ensuring rigorous data quality, variability accounting, integration, transparency, and replicability is essential. Lastly, sustained collaboration among engineers, scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders is critical for developing scalable, sustainable solutions to climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100587"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biogenic activated carbons from conservation grassland biomass for organic micropollutants removal in municipal wastewater","authors":"Korbinian Kaetzl ,&nbsp;Marcel Riegel ,&nbsp;Ben Joseph ,&nbsp;Ronja Ossenbrink ,&nbsp;Helmut Gerber ,&nbsp;Willis Gwenzi ,&nbsp;Tobias Morck ,&nbsp;David Laner ,&nbsp;Thomas Heinrich ,&nbsp;Volker Kromrey ,&nbsp;Kevin Friedrich ,&nbsp;Michael Wachendorf ,&nbsp;Kathrin Stenchly","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100588","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100588","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Activated carbons (ACs) are widely used in advanced wastewater treatment to remove organic micropollutants (OMPs), including pharmaceuticals, that evade conventional biological processes. Yet, fossil coal-based ACs generate substantial CO₂ emissions and conflict with circular-bioeconomy objectives. Here, we address the critical research gap in sustainable sorbent development by evaluating biogenic ACs produced from underutilized grassland biomass. Using a pretreatment to enrich carbon content and reduce minerals, we generated biogenic ACs from wet meadow (WET) and orchard meadow residues and compared them to Norit SAE Super and PULSORB WP 235 in batch adsorption tests. Despite its higher mineral and ash contents and lower specific surface area than conventional ACs, 100 %-activated WET (WET100) combined balanced micro- and mesoporosity—yielding heterogeneous adsorption sites that conform to Freundlich isotherms—and achieved 50 % OMP removal at a dosage of ∼13 mg L⁻¹, on par with Norit SAE Super (∼12 mg L⁻¹). Strong correlations between OMP removal and ultraviolet absorbance at 254 nm (UVA254; R² &gt; 0.95) validate UVA254 as a rapid monitoring proxy. Greenhouse gas footprint analyses revealed that substituting coal-based AC with WET100 reduces gate-to-grave emissions by approximately 2.4 t CO₂e per tonne of sorbent—translating to potential savings of up to 94 % CO₂e when deployed at scale for advanced OMP removal. These findings underscore that biogenic ACs can be seamlessly integrated into existing treatment infrastructure, valorize underutilized grassland biomass, align with circular-economy and EU sustainability objectives, and deliver substantial greenhouse-gas savings compared to coal-based adsorbents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100588"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distinct ARG profiles associated with class 1 integrons in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants","authors":"Yan Zhang ,&nbsp;Zhiguo Su ,&nbsp;Xuyang Qiu ,&nbsp;He Liu ,&nbsp;Donghui Wen ,&nbsp;Lyujun Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100586","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100586","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Class 1 integrons facilitate horizontal gene transfer, significantly influencing antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) dissemination within microbial communities. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are critical reservoirs of ARGs and integrons, yet the integron-mediated dynamics of ARG transfer across different WWTP types remain poorly understood. Here we show distinct ARG profiles associated with class 1 integrons in municipal and industrial WWTPs using a novel approach combining nested-like high-throughput qPCR and PacBio sequencing. Although industrial WWTPs contained higher absolute integron abundances, their relative ARG content was lower (1.27 × 10⁷–9.59 × 10⁷ copies/ng integron) compared to municipal WWTPs (3.72 × 10⁷–1.98 × 10⁸ copies/ng integron). Of the 132,084 coding sequences detected from integrons, 56.8 % encoded antibiotic resistance, with industrial plants showing lower ARG proportions, reduced ARG array diversity, and greater incorporation of non-ARG sequences. These findings suggest industrial WWTP integrons integrate a broader array of exogenous genes, reflecting adaptation to complex wastewater compositions. This work enhances our understanding of integron-driven ARG dynamics in wastewater and offers a robust strategy for environmental integron analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100586"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Establishing a nation-wide eco-environment monitoring network for sustainable governance","authors":"Dawei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100585"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144254366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water conservation strategies reduce greenhouse gas emission from wastewater treatment plants: A domino effect","authors":"Zixiang He ,&nbsp;Rupeng Wang ,&nbsp;Jifeng Wang ,&nbsp;Honglin Chen ,&nbsp;Shiyu Zhang ,&nbsp;Ke Wang ,&nbsp;Junjiang Lai ,&nbsp;Nanqi Ren ,&nbsp;Shih-Hsin Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wastewater-treatment plants (WWTPs) enable urban water reclamation but are significant sources of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Because GHG output scales with the volume and pollutant load of influent sewage, city-wide water-use patterns offer a direct yet under-examined lever for decarbonizing WWTP operations. The feedbacks linking demand-side water conservation to plant emissions remain poorly understood, obscuring important mitigation co-benefits. Here we show a domino-effect feedback between urban water-use patterns with WWTP carbon emissions. Our analysis demonstrates that optimized water management can improve average WWTP eco-efficiency by up to 189 %, leading to an annual reduction in water consumption of 48.3 billion m³ and a decrease in GHG emissions by 1.67 million tons CO₂-equivalent. Under this synergistic water-carbon management scenario, the wastewater sector could achieve carbon neutrality by 2037, seven years ahead of schedules based solely on technological advancements. Our findings present a novel and replicable framework that simultaneously addresses water scarcity and climate change. Unlike costly and slow-to-implement technological innovations, leveraging cross-sectoral synergies in water-intensive industries such as agriculture and manufacturing offers a pragmatic pathway to meeting critical carbon-reduction targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100574"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Compost-enhanced humification of organic pollutants: Mechanisms, challenges, and opportunities","authors":"Dongyu Cui ,&nbsp;Yike Kang ,&nbsp;Beidou Xi ,&nbsp;Ying Yuan ,&nbsp;Qiao Liu ,&nbsp;Wenbing Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Organic pollutants remain a persistent threat to ecosystems and human health. In soils, humification gradually converts these compounds into stable humic substances and attenuates their toxicity, but the transformation can take decades—far too slow to match current pollution loads. In this Perspective, we argue that mature compost offers a pragmatic means to accelerate this process: it delivers partially humified intermediates that can “seed” soil humification and shorten its timescale from decades to seasons. Spectroscopic evidence shows that compost-derived humus is enriched in aromatic backbones and reactive functional groups (–COOH, –OH) that both catalyze further condensation of organic matter and immobilise pollutants through π–π stacking, hydrogen bonding and covalent coupling. By merging these catalytic and sorptive functions, compost amendments provide a scalable, low-cost route to the long-term stabilization of organic contaminants. We outline the key mechanistic questions that now need resolution—particularly the reactivity of specific intermediates in situ—to guide field trials and unlock the full potential of compost-driven accelerated humification as an environmental remediation platform.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100575"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting regional development scenarios amplify legacy phosphorus threats to water quality","authors":"Wei Zhan ,&nbsp;Yedong Gao ,&nbsp;Haoran Zhang ,&nbsp;Yu Tian ,&nbsp;Yanan Zou ,&nbsp;Xiang Li ,&nbsp;Huihang Sun ,&nbsp;Lipin Li ,&nbsp;Yaruo Jin ,&nbsp;Jiaxin Cao ,&nbsp;Yiming Liu ,&nbsp;Nanqi Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100569","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100569","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Legacy phosphorus, accumulated from past anthropogenic activities, poses persistent and complex threats to global water quality. Despite extensive efforts to control phosphorus inputs, legacy phosphorus can persist for decades and undermine restoration goals. Emerging evidence suggests that shifts in regional development patterns profoundly reshape the dynamics and environmental risks of legacy phosphorus accumulation and mobilization. However, the mechanisms by which development pattern shifts reshape legacy phosphorus trajectories remain poorly understood. Here we show the complex pathways linking development-driven land-use changes, biogeochemical buffering capacities, and legacy phosphorus mobilization through an integrative modeling framework that couples developmental shift coefficients, anthropogenic phosphorus inventories, and riverine time-lag modeling to diagnose and predict long-term legacy phosphorus risks. Using the Songhua River as a case study, our results reveal that shifts from industrial to agricultural dominance significantly amplify legacy phosphorus accumulation by 86 times. Consequently, legacy phosphorus accounts for 65.4 %–69.9 %, surpassing current-year inputs and becoming the primary driver of riverine pollution. Furthermore, we demonstrate that development shifts systematically alter the dominant controlling factors, from fossil fuel emissions and drainage infrastructure to soil retention characteristics and agricultural practices, reshaping mitigation priorities. Our framework provides a generalizable methodology for quantifying legacy phosphorus risks under dynamic development patterns, offering immediate applications for water quality management. More broadly, this framework offers critical insights that can guide sustainable management strategies for linking evolving regional development patterns with long-term ecological restoration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100569"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biomanufacturing of hydrogen from waste molasses: A full-scale application","authors":"Nan-Qi Ren ,&nbsp;Jian-Zheng Li ,&nbsp;Jie Ding ,&nbsp;Xian-Feng Yan ,&nbsp;Nan Li ,&nbsp;Ni Zhang ,&nbsp;De-Feng Xing ,&nbsp;Zhi Qin ,&nbsp;Qian-Liang Liu ,&nbsp;Wan-Qian Guo ,&nbsp;Tian-hui Xie ,&nbsp;Shan-Shan Yang ,&nbsp;Yu Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biomanufacturing of hydrogen by acidogenic fermentation presents a promising avenue for sustainable hydrogen production; however, data on its full-scale application remain limited. Here we evaluate the performance of a 100 m³ continuous-flow stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) utilizing waste molasses and inoculated with aerobic excess sludge for hydrogen production. The reactor operated at 35 °C with a constant hydraulic retention time of 5.8 h, while the organic loading rate (OLR) was incrementally increased from 9.3 to 57.3 kg COD m⁻³ d⁻¹. By day 19, stable ethanol-type fermentation was established, yielding an average of 265 m³ of hydrogen per day. Over the subsequent 72 days, the reactor maintained continuous operation, achieving an average hydrogen production rate of 282 m³ d⁻¹ at an average OLR of 28.5 kg COD m⁻³ d⁻¹. Bioaugmentation with <em>Ethanoligenens harbinense</em> YUAN-3 at a 0.5 % volume fraction relative to the mixed liquor volatile suspended solids further enhanced hydrogen production to an average of 348 m³ d⁻¹. Despite fluctuations in the OLR between 17.1 and 55.2 kg COD m⁻³ d⁻¹, ethanol-type fermentation persisted throughout the bioaugmentation period. These findings demonstrate the viability of full-scale acidogenic fermentation for efficient hydrogen biomanufacturing from high-strength organic wastewater.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100568"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global mismatch between ecosystem service supply and demand driven by climate change and human activity","authors":"Shiqi Tian ,&nbsp;Wei Wu ,&nbsp;Shaofeng Chen ,&nbsp;Zhe Li ,&nbsp;Kai Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100573","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ese.2025.100573","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing the balance between ecosystem service supply and demand (ESSD) relationship and identifying its driving factors is essential for addressing ecosystem degradation. While previous local-scale studies have highlighted climate change and human activities as critical influences, their roles at a global scale remain poorly understood. Here, we analyze the global dynamics of supply–demand relationships for four key ecosystem services—food production, carbon sequestration, soil conservation, and water yield—over the period 2000–2020. We find that ESSD relationships generally exhibit spatially high supply-low demand and quantitatively surplus characteristics. Climate change and human activity influence ESSD relationships in dual-directional pathways. Specifically, they positively affect food production and soil conservation in 80.69 % and 72.50 % of global regions respectively; while negatively influencing carbon sequestration and water yield in 76.74 % and 62.44 % of global regions respectively. Human activity primarily shapes the ESSD relationships for food production and carbon sequestration, with mean contribution rates of 66.54 % and 60.80 % respectively; whereas climate change exerts greater control over soil conservation and water yield, with mean contribution rates of 54.62 % and 55.41 % respectively. Our findings clarify the direction (positive or negative), mode (individual or combined), contribution rates, and geographic distribution of these impacts. This research closes a critical gap in understanding global ESSD relationships and provides essential insights to inform sustainable ecosystem management from local to global scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34434,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science and Ecotechnology","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100573"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}