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Environmental Behaviors, Ecological Risks, and Toxic Mechanisms of Emerging and Legacy Contaminants in China: From Distribution to Management
Summary
Researchers reviewed the environmental distribution, ecological risks, and toxic mechanisms of both emerging and legacy contaminants in China's aquatic environments, examining how industrialization and urbanization drive the co-occurrence and combined pollution that threatens ecosystem integrity and human health.
In recent years, the accelerated pace of industrialization and urbanization has exacerbated the coexistence and combined pollution of both emerging and legacy contaminants in aquatic environments, posing potential threats to ecosystem integrity and human health [...]
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