The Eichhornia crassipes macrophyte, also known as water hyacinth, is considered an invasive species due to its adaptability to a wide variety of ecosystems, affecting the natural balance of lagoons, lakes and so on Vankar & Vásquez [1,2]. An example of this is their strong presence in contaminated wetlands such as the yellow Juan of the city of Bogotá, where they removed almost 30 tons in 2016...

Pearl-farming is the second most important source of income in French Polynesia. However, tropical lagoons are fragile ecosystems with regard to anthropogenic pressures like plastic pollution, which threaten marine life and pearl oyster-related economy. Here, we investigated spatial distribution microplastics (MP) concentrations surface water (SW), column (WC) cultivated oyster (PO) from three ...

Electrokinetics (EK) is an emerging remediation technology for the in situ removal of heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and radionuclides from soils and sediments. Naval Air Weapons Station Point Mugu, California will host an EK technology demonstration. The demonstration will consist of installing and operating an EK system, which is engineered to remove cadmium and chromium from forme...