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Pedro Cisterna-Osorio and Patricia Arancibia-Avila
Fats and oils are the most common pollutants in wastewater, and are usually eliminated through physical processes in wastewater treatment plants, generating large amounts of fats and residual oils that are difficult to dispose of and handle. The degradat...
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Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Teresa Neuparth, Tiago Torres, Miguel M. Santos and Marta Otero
In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus obliquus (SO) were the strains used for water t...
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Lebohang E. Koloti, Rosina Nkuna and Tonderayi S. Matambo
This study provides a theoretical baseline on the application of chemical and microbiological indicators as rapid system performance monitoring tools that will allow for timely corrective measures to maintain and improve the bioremediation performance of...
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Tânia Luz Palma and Maria Clara Costa
17a-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetically derived analogue of endogenous estrogen, is widely employed as a hormonal contraceptive and is recognized as a highly hazardous emerging pollutant, causing acute and chronic toxic effects on both aquatic and te...
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J. Paniagua-Michel and Ibrahim M. Banat
The search for practical solutions to alleviate the destructive impact of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine environments is contributing to the implementation of prospecting strategies for indigenous microorganisms with biodegradative and bioremediation p...
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Kathleen E. Duncan, Lina E. Dominici, Mark A. Nanny, Irene A. Davidova, Brian H. Harriman and Joseph M. Suflita
Some naval vessels add seawater to carbon steel fuel ballast tanks to maintain stability during fuel consumption. Marine sediments often contaminate ballast tank fluids and have been implicated in stimulating fuel biodegradation and enhancing biocorrosio...
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Olga. A. Glazunova, Konstantin V. Moiseenko and Tatyana V. Fedorova
As a toxic xenobiotic compound, the anthraquinone dye Remazol Brilliant Blue R (RBBR) poses a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems. In the present study, the ability of Trametes hirsuta to remove RBBR from the medium was investigated, and the role of ads...
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Xiaowei Liu, Wenliang Wei, Guocheng Liu, Bo Zhu, Jie Cui and Tao Yin
Plastic film mulching, widely used in agriculture, leads to microplastic (MP) pollution in soils. While biodegradable polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) films may offer a solution, their impacts on subsurface soils and microorganisms remain unclea...
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María José Alvarado-López, Sofía E. Garrido-Hoyos, María Elena Raynal-Gutiérrez, Elie G. El-Kassis, Víctor M. Luque-Almagro and Genoveva Rosano-Ortega
A native cyanide-degrading bacterial consortium was isolated from goldmine tailing sediments. Mine tailings are toxic effluents due to their metal?cyanide complexes. The bacterial consortium was able to degrade an initial sodium cyanide concentration ran...
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Martina Bertolini, Sarah Zecchin and Lucia Cavalca
Chlorinated ethene contamination is a worldwide relevant health issue. In anaerobic aquifers, highly chlorinated ethenes are transformed by microbially-mediated organohalide respiration metabolism. For this reason, in the last few years, bioremediation i...
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