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ClearA Review of Emerging Environmental Contaminants of Global Concern
This review covers major categories of emerging environmental contaminants including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing their sources, ecological effects, and detection methods. Recent advances in sensitive analytical techniques have accelerated the identification and monitoring of these pollutants.
A comprehensive review of emerging contaminants in water sources
This comprehensive review examines the origins and environmental significance of emerging contaminants in water sources, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and PFAS chemicals. Researchers found that these persistent pollutants exhibit complex behaviors in aquatic systems and pose threats to both ecosystem and human health. The study highlights the need for advanced monitoring and treatment technologies to address the growing challenge of emerging contaminant pollution in water supplies.
Emerging Environmental Contaminats of High Concern: Trends, Potential Sources, Friendly Treatment Technologies and Future Prospects
This review examines sources, environmental behavior, and health effects of emerging environmental contaminants -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals -- along with promising treatment technologies for their removal from water and soil.
Occurrence of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Causes and Effects
This review defines and categorizes contaminants of emerging concern including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides, summarizing their sources, environmental occurrence, and potential treatment strategies.
Emerging Organic Contaminants
This review examines emerging organic contaminants in soil environments, covering sources, environmental fate, and ecological impacts of pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, personal care products, and microplastics that contaminate terrestrial ecosystems through agricultural and industrial activity.
Microplastics as an emerging contaminant of concern to our environment: a brief overview of the sources and implications
This overview describes how microplastics have become a widespread environmental contaminant found in water, soil, air, and living organisms. Beyond being pollutants themselves, microplastics can carry other toxic substances and even antibiotic-resistant bacteria, amplifying their health risks. The authors emphasize that microplastic exposure through food, water, and air poses a significant and underappreciated threat to human health.
Emerging Pollutants in Soil and Water: Sources, Risks, and Advances in Removal Technologies for Sustainable Management
This review provides a broad overview of emerging pollutants in soil and water, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics, examining their sources, environmental persistence, and potential health effects. Researchers evaluated various removal technologies ranging from conventional methods to advanced approaches like nanofiltration and bioremediation. The study emphasizes the need for integrated management strategies that combine multiple treatment methods to effectively address these widespread contaminants.
The role of emerging organic contaminants in the development of antimicrobial resistance
Researchers reviewed how emerging organic contaminants — including plastics, pharmaceuticals, and biocides found throughout the environment — can promote the development and spread of antibiotic resistance in microbes. The study argues that tackling antimicrobial resistance requires addressing not just antibiotic overuse but also the broader chemical pollution that shapes microbial communities.
Emerging Contaminants in waste Water: Detection, and Treatment Innovations
This review covers emerging contaminants in wastewater—including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes—examining their sources, detection methods using advanced analytical tools, and cutting-edge treatment innovations.
Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Occurrence and Remediation
This review covers contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, examining their occurrence in the environment and available remediation strategies. Researchers found that these pollutants are widespread but inconsistently regulated, and the study highlights the need for standardized monitoring and effective treatment technologies.
Prevalence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products, microplastics and co-infecting microbes in the post-COVID-19 era and its implications on antimicrobial resistance and potential endocrine disruptive effects
This review examines how the COVID-19 pandemic increased environmental contamination from pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics, all of which can promote antibiotic resistance and disrupt hormones. The surge in mask use, sanitizer disposal, and medication contributed to higher levels of these pollutants in waterways. The combination of microplastics with pharmaceutical residues creates a compounding threat where plastics can carry drug-resistant bacteria and hormone-disrupting chemicals into water supplies.
Emerging contaminants and their influence on plants: An in-depth review
This review examines how emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and nanomaterials accumulate in soil and affect plant health. The study found these pollutants can disrupt plant growth through various toxic mechanisms and persist in food webs, highlighting the need for effective mitigation strategies to protect crop productivity, soil health, and food security.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment. I. Sources, Accumulation, and Ecological Implications
This review characterized emerging pollutants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals, pesticides, nanomaterials, and microplastics in environmental compartments, focusing on their persistence and ecological implications. The paper analyzed how these pollutants accumulate in water, soil, air, and biota, disrupting reproductive health, metabolic functions, and biodiversity.
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment with Emphasis on Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes
This review examines how pharmaceuticals and personal care products released into the environment contribute to antibiotic resistance, identifying them as contaminants of emerging concern that pose significant global health risks through horizontal gene transfer.
Occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants in a diverse ecosystem
This review examined the occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors across diverse ecosystems, tracing their pathways from wastewater treatment systems into natural environments.
Impact of Abiotic Stressors on Soil Microbial Communities: A Focus on Antibiotics and Their Interactions with Emerging Pollutants
This review examines how environmental stressors, especially antibiotics, affect the microbial communities that keep soil healthy and fertile. It also covers how antibiotics interact with other emerging pollutants like microplastics and heavy metals in soil. When microplastics carry antibiotics into soil, the combination can promote the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is a growing concern for human health.
Contaminants of emerging concern in agricultural soils: Current understanding, overlooked issues, and future priorities
This review synthesizes evidence on how contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and PFAS, enter agricultural soils, accumulate in crops, and affect ecological and human health. The study found that these contaminants pose complex risks including antimicrobial resistance and sublethal impacts on plant and soil systems, while highlighting critical knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
Detecting Emerging Contaminants in Groundwater: Risks to Ecosystems and Human Health
This review examines how emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics infiltrate groundwater through landfill leaching, septic systems, and agricultural runoff. Researchers highlight the challenges of detecting these pollutants at low concentrations and their ability to persist and spread through groundwater systems. The study emphasizes the urgent need for advanced detection technologies and stronger regulatory frameworks to protect groundwater resources.
Recent Developments in Emerging Contaminants Determination and Treatment Technologies
This review covers recent advances in detecting and treating emerging contaminants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing the most promising analytical and treatment technologies.
Emerging pollutants-a potential threat to the marine environment
This review catalogs emerging marine pollutants — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, hormones, and industrial chemicals — and discusses their sources and potential ecological impacts. The diversity of these contaminants poses complex and poorly understood threats to ocean and human health.
Microplastics and associated emerging contaminants in the environment: Analysis, sorption mechanisms and effects of co-exposure
Researchers reviewed how microplastics act as carriers for other environmental pollutants — including antibiotics, PFAS, and triclosan — absorbing them from surrounding water and potentially delivering higher doses to organisms that ingest the plastic, with combined toxicity effects that can be either amplified or reduced depending on the combination.
Microplastics as an emerging threat to human health: Challenges and advancements in their detection
This review examined microplastics as an emerging threat to human health, highlighting their endocrine-disrupting properties, ability to accumulate pollutants, and the analytical challenges in accurately detecting and characterizing them across environmental and biological samples.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment. Ii. Risks and Mitigation Technologies for Sustainable Environmental Management
This review examines emerging pollutants—including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics—in the environment, assessing their health and ecological risks and summarizing available mitigation technologies for sustainable environmental management.
[Environmental Process, Effects and Risks of Emerging Contaminants in the Estuary-Coastal Environment].
This review examines the environmental processes, distribution, and risks of emerging contaminants — including microplastics, per- and polyfluorinated compounds, antibiotics, and endocrine disruptors — in estuarine and coastal environments, where complex interfacial transport mechanisms amplify their ecological and public health impacts.