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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are Richard Handy (University of Plymouth) and Bing Yan (Guangzhou University). Established in 1977, the journal has published in open-access since 2021. [1]
Exposure assessment is a branch of environmental science and occupational hygiene that focuses on the processes that take place at the interface between the environment containing the contaminant of interest and the organism being considered. These are the final steps in the path to release an environmental contaminant, through transport to its ...
Environmental toxicology is a multidisciplinary field of science concerned with the study of the harmful effects of various chemical, biological and physical agents on living organisms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ecotoxicology is a subdiscipline of environmental toxicology concerned with studying the harmful effects of toxicants at the population and ...
A key environmental concern involves polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which "accumulate on particles and sediments, shielding them from biodegradation," according to Green and Trett. [ 7 ] In one study, samples were collected from four sites (13 stations) in the Amazon where crude oil was the main pollutant.
Ecotoxicology is a relatively young discipline that made its debuts in the 1970s [2] in the realm of the environmental sciences. Its methodological aspects, derived from toxicology, are widened to encompass the human environmental field and the biosphere at large.
The Florida Environmental Research Institute (FERI) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, research and education organization [1] located in Tampa, Florida. Founded in 1998, FERI’s initial client was the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Naval Research (ONR). [ 2 ]
Experts weigh in on the factors that can take the tendency to hold one’s pee from harmless to harmful. ... This is why people, especially those with female anatomy, are told to pee after sex ...
Valery E. Forbes is an American ecologist and professor specializing in environmental toxicology.Since the start of the 2022-2023 academic season, she has been the Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University. [1]