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Microplastics are currently considered widespread marine pollutants, accumulating in sediments and shorelines around the world. Spatial distribution of microplastics in marine sediments is consequence of a combination of...

The wedge clam Donax hanleyanus Philippi, 1845 is a conspicuous member of the sandy beach macrofauna along hundreds of kilometres in the northern coasts of Argentina. Age, growth, mortality, and productivity of this spec...

The aim of this work is to assess the risk of groundwater contamination associated with BTEX dissolution from fuels as a residual phase. Numerical simulations of sixty scenarios were carried out with the software HYDRUS ...

Bothrops diporus is a mid-sized pitviper found in southern Brazil, southern Paraguay, central and northern Argentina, and probably extreme south-central Bolivia. Although it is common in a variety of habitats including C...

In the past, country house research was mainly concerned with individual houses and gardens. Yet, as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, so many country houses were being built around the major cities that...

From around 1866, Noordwijk aan Zee morphed from a small fishing village into a fashionable seaside resort. Although this transformation was set in train by a local hotelier, it was not fully realized until 1887, thanks ...

Abstract Respiratory tract infections and diarrhoea are the two biggest killers of children in low income contexts. They are closely related to access to, and use of improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). However...