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Redox-sensitive processes are influencing the As mobilization and release under reducing environmental conditions. As in groundwater poses a serious threat to human health hence awareness is urgent towards achieving sustainable As mitigation globally. The study provided a significant dataset to better understand the processes and environmental conditions responsible for hydrogeochemical evolution, sources of solutes, and As mobilization and release in groundwater which will help in sustainable water resource management policies and ecosystem restoration across the Himalayas.Plastic film mulching has been extensively used for spring maize (Zea mays L.) production in the Hetao Irrigation District (HID). Determining whether transparent plastic film mulching results in premature senescence and yield reduction of spring maize still needs to be verified. A two-year field experiment was conducted in the HID that involved planting spring maize under three mulching practices on a flat plot 1) without mulching (control treatment, CK), 2) with black plastic film mulching (BM), 3) with transparent plastic film mulching (TM). The results indicated that TM and BM were superior to CK in terms of effects on soil hydrothermal conditions. Compared with BM, TM produced significantly higher soil temperature at V6, and had no significant temperature effect at V12, R1, R3, and R6. Both TM and BM promoted early seedling emergence and earlier silking, and TM extended the duration of the reproductive stages by 1-2 days compared with BM, and 4-5 days longer than CK. TM and BM produced greater kernel weights and kernel volumes in the superior and middle portions of the ear than CK. TM produced significantly greater total kernel weights per ear than BM at and after 23 days after silking. TM significantly increased grain-filling rate and length of the active grain-filling period compared with BM and CK. Additionally, TM and BM produced significantly higher photosynthetic parameters than CK at the grain-filling stage in the two study years. The net photosynthesis rate for TM was significantly greater than for BM. TM and BM significantly increased grain yields by 28.1% and 15.1%, respectively, in 2019 over CK, and by 24.6% and 21.1% in 2020. Transparent plastic film mulching could serve as a promising adaptive management practice to increase resource use efficiency and to improve maize productivity in the HID.Electric vehicles (EVs) can substantially decrease atmospheric pollutant emissions, thereby improving air quality, decreasing global warming, and improving human health. In this study, we performed a comprehensive bibliometric analysis using Web of Science to understand the research developments and future perspectives in EVs between 1974 and 2021. The analysis of indicators such as research trends, publication growth, and keywords revealed that most research in the selected timeframe was focused on applying and optimizing the existing technologies of different types of EVs to decrease air pollution and mortality. The changes in air quality owing to such electrification received special attention, with approximately 441 publications preferably in the English language. Among all the retrieved documents, research articles were most common (n = 295; 66.89% of the global output), dominated by the research domains of environmental sciences, followed by energy fuels and transportation science technology. Journal anectrification of vehicles.The increasing amount of municipal sludge in China requires safe and effective management to protect human health and ensure environmental sustainability. Pyrolysis is a thermochemical process that decomposes organic matter at elevated temperature and under anaerobic conditions, and it has attracted an increasing attention in sludge treatment in the recent years. However, comprehensive environmental and economic assessment of sludge pyrolysis in China's context is rare, due to the small quantities of full-scale sludge pyrolysis plant. In this paper, we applied our design and operation parameters of full-scale sludge pyrolysis plants to generate the material and energy consumptions of the pyrolysis system under various of conditions, including sludge organic content and moisture content, system size, system energy distribution, and whether or not heat substitution is applied. Life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment were then applied to investigate the environmental and economic performance of the system. Our results demonstrate the significant environmental and economic impacts associated with sludge properties and system size. Generally, sludge with higher organic content and lower moisture content requires less natural gas consumption, which leads to a simultaneous improvement of the system environmental and economic performance. The system economic performance is more sensitive to the system size, and centralized sludge handling using a larger pyrolysis system is more economic favorable. In the most ideal case, the average global warming potential and minimum sludge handling price of sludge pyrolysis could be as low as -32.5 kg CO2-Eq/t DS and 188.8 $/t DS, respectively. BSO inhibitor ic50 Based on these results, we discussed the pathways that could be taken to further optimize the environmental and economic performances of the pyrolysis system.Elevated nitrogen (N) addition from anthropogenic activities has great impacts on soil methane (CH4) uptake, which could interrupt the existing global CH4 balance and cause feedbacks to climate and biogeochemical processes. Previous studies have come to inconsistent conclusions on both the quantification of the response of CH4 uptake to N addition and understanding of its underlying mechanisms, probably due to the lack of experimental data. Here, we conduct a broad meta-analysis of 90 papers to quantify the responses of CH4 uptake to N addition in upland soil. The results show that N addition has a significant negative impact on soil CH4 uptake (-19.25%), which is termed the N inhibition effect. Soil pH is identified as the dominant factor, with the other factors affecting the CH4 uptake through the alteration of soil pH. The N inhibition effect is observed to be large and significant in forest and grassland, but small and insignificant in farmland, because of the distinct composition of their methanotrophic communities.