Nature inspired solutions enable biological systems to adapt and accomplish their tasks in very noisy and uncertain environments. Taking inspiration from nature, a novel bacteria controller capable of finding the source of pollution in an underwater medium turbulent environment is presented in this paper. Experiments prove that the controller is capable of performing pollution source exploratio...

INTRODUCTION Given the importance of oceans to humankind and the increasing pressure they are under, it is timely to identify and prioritize oceanic health issues that are covered in their ill-defined state by “marine pollution” (MP). MP increasingly leads to disturbances of the oceanic environment and its biota and adversely affects environmental and human health. Pollutants may have various b...

General This is a good study that illustrates a correlation between marine productivity, gaseous emissions of biogenic sulphur, and new particle production in the Arctic region and contrasts a period dominated by marine emissions with that of long-range pollution transport leading to Arctic haze. The authors clam that this study proves a conclusive link, including direct evidence, of DMS emissi...

Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

Background: Land and water pollution by heavy metals is a universal issue. Although the pollution affects all countries, but its range and severity vary hugely. The pollution of the marine environment by heavy metals is a worldwide problem. Marine sediments can be sensitive indicators for monitoring contaminants in aquatic environments. Methods: The concentration of 10 elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu...

Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Department of Marine Sciences, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, Savannah, GA, USA, Department of Chemistry, ...

1 Earth System Science, University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine CA, USA, 2 Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, 3 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 4 Department of Earth Sciences, Second Institute...

Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract Given the complexity of quantitative collection, knowledge of the distribution of mi-croplastic pollution in many regions of the world ocean is patchy, both spatially and temporally, especially for the subsurfac...