Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Article	Citations
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures	662
A state-of-the-art review on wastewater treatment techniques: the effectiveness of adsorption method	526
Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems	430
Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China	395
Dynamic relationship between technological innovations, financial development, renewable energy, and ecological footprint: fresh insights based on the STIRPAT model for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperati	313
An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping	303
Linking financial development, economic growth, and ecological footprint: what is the role of technological innovation?	251
Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review	246
Does globalization matter for ecological footprint in Turkey? Evidence from dual adjustment approach	233
Do fiscal decentralization and natural resources rent curb carbon emissions? Evidence from developed countries	231
Evaluating green innovation and performance of financial development: mediating concerns of environmental regulation	226
Recent progress on Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts: photocatalytic and bactericidal behaviors	216
How green technology innovation affects carbon emission efficiency: evidence from developed countries proposing carbon neutrality targets	215
Photocatalysis: an effective tool for photodegradation of dyes—a review	209
Do public-private partnerships in energy and renewable energy consumption matter for consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions in India?	197
Remittance inflows affect the ecological footprint in BICS countries: do technological innovation and financial development matter?	185
Nexus on climate change: agriculture and possible solution to cope future climate change stresses	182
Impact of foreign direct investment, natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on environmental degradation: evidence from BRICS, developing, developed and global countries	179
Wavelet analysis of impact of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation on CO2 emissions: evidence from Portugal	177
Beneficial microbiomes for bioremediation of diverse contaminated environments for environmental sustainability: present status and future challenges	169
The dynamic linkage between globalization, financial development, energy utilization, and environmental sustainability in GCC countries	167
Digitalization and environment: how does ICT affect enterprise environmental performance?	165
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The asymmetric effects of renewable energy consumption and trade openness on carbon emissions in Sweden: new evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression ap	164
Understanding the dynamics of natural resources rents, environmental sustainability, and sustainable economic growth: new insights from China	162
RETRACTED ARTICLE: It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO2 emission	161

Environmental risks and toxicity of surfactants: overview of analysis, assessment, and remediation techniques	160
Effect of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions−an empirical investigation for developing countries	160
Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact	158
Analysis of the mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth: evidence from 269 prefecture cities in China	158
The nexus between environmental regulations, economic growth, and environmental sustainability: linking environmental patents to ecological footprint reduction in South Asia	157
Impact of globalization, foreign direct investment, and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in Bangladesh: Does institutional quality matter?	156
Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence	154
Water-energy nexus: desalination technologies and renewable energy sources	153
Clean energy investment and financial development as determinants of environment and sustainable economic growth: evidence from China	153
Modeling CO2 emissions in Malaysia: an application of Maki cointegration and wavelet coherence tests	153
Impact of economic policy uncertainty on CO2 emissions: evidence from top ten carbon emitter countries	153
The increases and decreases of the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) for 8 OECD countries	152
The distribution and impact of polystyrene nanoplastics on cucumber plants	147
The roles of nuclear energy, renewable energy, and economic growth in the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in the G7 countries	145
Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France	143
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do energy use and economic policy uncertainty affect CO2 emissions in China? Empirical evidence from the dynamic ARDL simulation approach	143
Dynamics among economic growth, urbanization, and environmental sustainability in IEA countries: the role of industry value-added	143
The effect of technological innovation, FDI, and financial development on CO2 emission: evidence from the G8 countries	142
Can digital finance promote corporate green innovation?	141
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Impact of renewable energy consumption, financial development and natural resources on environmental degradation in OECD countries with dynamic panel data	140
Impact of financial development and technological innovation on the volatility of green growth—evidence from China	139
The influences of renewable electricity generation, technological innovation, financial development, and economic growth on ecological footprints in ASEAN-5 countries	139
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Industry 4.0 technology and circular economy practices: business management strategies for environmental sustainability	138
Does economic prosperity lead to environmental sustainability in developing economies? Environmental Kuznets curve theory	137
Nexus between green logistic operations and triple bottom line: evidence from infrastructure-led Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Belt and Road host countries	136
Impact of Green financing, FinTech, and financial inclusion on energy efficiency	136
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does green finance mitigate the effects of climate variability: role of renewable energy investment and infrastructure	135
Municipal solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: effects and repercussions	132
The role of disinfectants and sanitizers during COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and deleterious effects on humans and the environment	131
Impact of tourism development upon environmental sustainability: a suggested framework for sustainable ecotourism	130
Abundance of natural resources and environmental sustainability: the roles of manufacturing value-added, urbanization, and permanent cropland	128
Co-movement of energy prices and stock market return: environmental wavelet nexus of COVID-19 pandemic from the USA, Europe, and China	127
Accounting for the combined impacts of natural resources rent, income level, and energy consumption on environmental quality of G7 economies: a panel quantile regression approach	126
Sustainable development and pollution: the effects of CO2 emission on population growth, food production, economic development, and energy consumption in Pakistan	126
Blockchain in supply chain management: a review, bibliometric, and network analysis	126
Moderating the effect of globalization on financial development, energy consumption, human capital, and carbon emissions: evidence from G20 countries	126
The impact of financial development and geopolitical risk on renewable energy consumption: evidence from emerging markets	125
Technological innovation, financialization, and ecological footprint: evidence from BEM economies	124
Does geopolitical risk escalate CO2 emissions? Evidence from the BRICS countries	124
Trilemma association of energy consumption, carbon emission, and economic growth of BRICS and OECD regions: quantile regression estimation	122
Air pollution exposure—the (in)visible risk factor for respiratory diseases	121
How energy insecurity leads to energy poverty? Do environmental consideration and climate change concerns matters	121
Role of financial development, environmental-related technologies, research and development, energy intensity, natural resource depletion, and temperature in sustainable environment in Canada	121
Do environmental taxes and environmental stringency policies reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from 7 emerging economies	120
Reinvigorating the role of clean energy transition for achieving a low-carbon economy: evidence from Bangladesh	119
The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Bangladesh: the importance of natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and hydropower consumption	119
Climate change and crop production nexus in Somalia: an empirical evidence from ARDL technique	119
Blockchain and artificial intelligence technology in e-Health	118
A review of water electrolysis–based systems for hydrogen production using hybrid/solar/wind energy systems	118
Effects of the spread of COVID-19 on public health of polluted cities: results of the first wave for explaining the dejà vu in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and epidemics of future vital agents	118

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and population growth influence carbon emissions in the BRICS? Evidence from panel models robust to cross-sectional dependenc	117
Monetization of the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels	116
Heavy metal–induced stress in eukaryotic algae—mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity and tolerance with particular emphasis on oxidative stress in exposed cells and the role of antioxidant response	116
Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes in aquaculture: risks, current concern, and future thinking	116
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Asymmetric nexus among financial globalization, non-renewable energy, renewable energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions: impact on environmental sustainability targets in	116
ICT, foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in major Asia Pacific countries	116
Determinants of green growth in developed and developing countries	116
Asymmetric investigation to track the effect of urbanization, energy utilization, fossil fuel energy and CO2 emission on economic efficiency in China: another outlook	114
Go for green: green innovation through green dynamic capabilities: accessing the mediating role of green practices and green value co-creation	113
Effect of green human resource management practices on organizational sustainability: the mediating role of environmental and employee performance	112
Can CO2 emissions and energy consumption determine the economic performance of South Korea? A time series analysis	112
Determinants of consumption-based carbon emissions in Chile: an application of non-linear ARDL	112
Climate-resilient strategies for sustainable management of water resources and agriculture	111
Renewable energy and non-renewable energy consumption: assessing the asymmetric role of monetary policy uncertainty in energy consumption	110
Renewable Energy Consumption and Environmental Sustainability in Canada: Does Political Stability Make a Difference?	109
Heterogeneous effects of remittances and institutional quality in reducing environmental deficit in the presence of EKC hypothesis: A global study with the application of panel quantile regression	109
Striving towards environmental sustainability: how natural resources, human capital, financial development, and economic growth interact with ecological footprint in China	109
A comprehensive review on human health effects of chromium: insights on induced toxicity	109
The role of information and communication technologies in mitigating carbon emissions: evidence from panel quantile regression	108
The intermittent effects of renewable energy on ecological footprint: evidence from developing countries	108
The role of natural resources, globalization, and renewable energy in testing the EKC hypothesis in MINT countries: new evidence from Method of Moments Quantile Regression approach	107
Aluminum environmental pollution: the silent killer	107
A causal link between renewable energy, energy efficiency, property rights, and CO2 emissions in developed countries: A road map for environmental sustainability	107
Impact of financial development and energy consumption on environmental degradation in 184 countries using a dynamic panel model	106
Geochemical characteristics and quality of groundwater evaluation for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes from a part of hard rock aquifer of South India	106
Can nuclear energy fuel an environmentally sustainable economic growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India	105
Ecotoxicological risk assessment for sediments of Çavuşlu stream in Giresun, Turkey: association between garbage disposal facility and metallic accumulation	105
Foreign investment and CO2 emissions: do technological innovation and institutional quality matter? Evidence from system GMM approach	105
Analysis of CO2 emissions and energy consumption by sources in MENA countries: evidence from quantile regressions	104
Assessing environmental quality through natural resources, energy resources, and tax revenues	104
RETRACTED ARTICLE: How green finance and financial development promote green economic growth: deployment of clean energy sources in South Asia	104
A systems thinking approach to understanding the challenges of achieving the circular economy	103
Do economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk surge CO2 emissions? New insights from panel quantile regression approach	102
Impact of good governance and natural resource rent on economic and environmental sustainability: an empirical analysis for South Asian economies	102
Comprehensive assessment of water quality and associated health risk by using physicochemical quality indices and multivariate analysis in Terme River, Turkey	102
Is there a tradeoff between financial globalization, economic growth, and environmental sustainability? An advanced panel analysis	102
Whether foreign direct investment can promote high-quality economic development under environmental regulation: evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	102
Economic complexity, tourism, energy prices, and environmental degradation in the top economic complexity countries: fresh panel evidence	102
Nonrenewable and renewable energy consumption, trade openness, and environmental quality in G-7 countries: the conditional role of technological progress	100
Convergence analysis of the ecological footprint: theory and empirical evidence from the USMCA countries	100
Testing environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in different regions	100
A review of the cost and effectiveness of solutions to address plastic pollution	99
Does interaction between technological innovation and natural resource rent impact environmental degradation in newly industrialized countries? New evidence from method of moments quantile regression	99
Treatment of electroplating industry wastewater: a review on the various techniques	98
Recycling/reuse of plastic waste as construction material for sustainable development: a review	98
Environmental implications of N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve for E7 countries	97
Does the green credit policy affect the scale of corporate debt financing? Evidence from listed companies in heavy pollution industries in China	97
Geopolitical risks, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in BRICS: an asymmetric analysis	97
The policy effect of green finance in promoting industrial transformation and upgrading efficiency in China: analysis from the perspective of government regulation and public environmental demands	97
Insights into the relationships between physicochemical properties, solvent performance, and applications of deep eutectic solvents	96
Does green credit affect the green innovation performance of high-polluting and energy-intensive enterprises? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	96
A review on application of activated carbons for carbon dioxide capture: present performance, preparation, and surface modification for further improvement	96
Energy mix outlook and the EKC hypothesis in BRICS countries: a perspective of economic freedom vs. economic growth	96
Exploring the impact of tourism and energy consumption on the load capacity factor in Turkey: a novel dynamic ARDL approach	95
Environmental aspect of energy transition and urbanization in the OPEC member states	95
Expatiating the impact of anthropogenic aspects and climatic factors on long-term soil monitoring and management	94
Nexus between environment regulation, FDI, and green technology innovation in OECD countries	94
The impact of outward foreign direct investment on green innovation: the threshold effect of environmental regulation	94
Do industrialization, energy importations, and economic progress influence carbon emission in Pakistan	94
The environmental impact of industrialization and foreign direct investment: empirical evidence from Asia-Pacific region	94
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Testing role of green financing on climate change mitigation: Evidences from G7 and E7 countries	93
Prediction of irrigation groundwater quality parameters using ANN, LSTM, and MLR models	93
State of the art of post-consumer textile waste upcycling to reach the zero waste milestone	92
Insights into conventional and recent technologies for arsenic bioremediation: A systematic review	92
The potency of eco-innovation, natural resource and financial development on ecological footprint: a quantile-ARDL-based evidence from China	92
Review of cooling techniques used to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic power systems	92
Modeling CO2 emissions in South Africa: empirical evidence from ARDL based bounds and wavelet coherence techniques	91
Microplastics from headwaters to tap water: occurrence and removal in a drinking water treatment plant in Barcelona Metropolitan area (Catalonia, NE Spain)	91
The relevance of EKC hypothesis in energy intensity real-output trade-off for sustainable environment in EU-27	91
Disaggregated renewable energy sources in mitigating CO2 emissions: new evidence from the USA using quantile regressions	91
Impacts of environmental taxes and technologies on greenhouse gas emissions: contextual evidence from leading emitter European countries	91
Toward a sustainable environment and economic growth in BRICS economies: do innovation and globalization matter?	91
ICT, renewable energy, financial development, and CO2 emissions in developing countries of East and South Asia	91
Environmental quality and the role of economic policy uncertainty, economic complexity, renewable energy, and energy intensity: the case of G7 countries	90
Rice straw burning: a review on its global prevalence and the sustainable alternatives for its effective mitigation	90
The impact of information and communication technology, financial development, and energy consumption on carbon dioxide emission: evidence from the Belt and Road countries	90
Improving the feasibility of aquaculture feed by using microalgae	90
Does green credit policy affect corporate debt financing? Evidence from China	89
Effects of tourism, financial development, and renewable energy on environmental performance in EU-28: does institutional quality matter?	87
Financial stability role on climate risks, and climate change mitigation: Implications for green economic recovery	87

Examining the role of financial inclusion towards CO2 emissions: presenting the role of renewable energy and globalization in the context of EKC	87
Assessing the impact of energy internet and energy misallocation on carbon emissions: new insights from China	87
Analysis of environmental taxes publications: a bibliometric and systematic literature review	85
Photocatalytic degradation of amoxicillin from aqueous solutions by titanium dioxide nanoparticles loaded on graphene oxide	85
Polystyrene microplastics induce blood–testis barrier disruption regulated by the MAPK-Nrf2 signaling pathway in rats	85
The influence of renewable energy use, human capital, and trade on environmental quality in South Africa: multiple structural breaks cointegration approach	85
The relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a moderate role of fintech technology	85
Effect of Environmental Regulation on High-quality Economic Development in China—An Empirical Analysis Based on Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model	84
Mitigating energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina: the roles of renewable energy and economic globalization	84
Impact of globalization on CO2 emissions based on EKC hypothesis in developing world: the moderating role of human capital	84
Environmental regulation, import trade, and green technology innovation	84
Digital economy and urban low-carbon sustainable development: the role of innovation factor mobility in China	84
Impact of environmental regulation on green total factor productivity: a new perspective of green technological innovation	84
Analyzing asymmetric impact of economic growth, energy use, FDI inflows, and oil prices on CO2 emissions through NARDL approach	84
Adsorption mechanism of Zn2+, Ni2+, Cd2+, and Cu2+ ions by carbon-based adsorbents: interpretation of the adsorption isotherms via physical modelling	83
Heterogeneous effects of economic policy uncertainty and foreign direct investment on environmental quality: cross-country evidence	83
Approaches to prevent and control Campylobacter spp. colonization in broiler chickens: a review	83
Effects of economic complexity, economic growth, and renewable energy technology budgets on ecological footprint: the role of democratic accountability	83
Green innovation and environmental regulations: a systematic review of international academic works	83
Factors influencing renewable energy generation development: a way to environmental sustainability	83
Spatial spillover effect of carbon emission efficiency in the construction industry of China	83
A study on water quality prediction by a hybrid CNN-LSTM model with attention mechanism	83
Role of alternative and nuclear energy in stimulating environmental sustainability: impact of government expenditures	83
The effect of financial globalization and natural resource rent on load capacity factor in India: an analysis using the dual adjustment approach	83
Digital finance and corporate green innovation: quantity or quality?	83
International trade and consumption-based carbon emissions: evaluating the role of composite risk for RCEP economies	82
Revealing the dynamic effects of fossil fuel energy, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and carbon emissions on Pakistan’s economic growth	82
Industrialization, urbanization, and carbon emission efficiency of Yangtze River Economic Belt—empirical analysis based on stochastic frontier model	82
Towards achieving environmental sustainability: environmental quality versus economic growth in a developing economy on ecological footprint via dynamic simulations of ARDL	82
Application of a hybrid ARIMA-LSTM model based on the SPEI for drought forecasting	82
Climate change and major crop production: evidence from Pakistan	81
Does globalization affect the green economy and environment? The relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth	81
The double-edged role of the digital economy in firm green innovation: micro-evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry	81
International tourism, digital infrastructure, and CO2 emissions: fresh evidence from panel quantile regression approach	81
Effect of fins and silicon dioxide nanoparticle black paint on the absorber plate for augmenting yield from tubular solar still	81
The nexus of financial development, technological innovation, institutional quality, and environmental quality: evidence from OECD economies	80
A designed experiment for CdS-AgBr photocatalyst toward methylene blue	80
Evaluation of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) as an industrial crop: a review	80
Proposed formulation of surface water quality and modelling using gene expression, machine learning, and regression techniques	80
Essential oils and their bioactive compounds as eco-friendly novel green pesticides for management of storage insect pests: prospects and retrospects	80
Nature and climate change effects on economic growth: an LSTM experiment on renewable energy resources	80
Does ICT diffusion lead to energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in emerging Asian economies?	80
A comprehensive review on the carcinogenic potential of bisphenol A: clues and evidence	80
Heavy metals contamination and associated health risks in food webs—a review focuses on food safety and environmental sustainability in Bangladesh	80
Caring for the environment: how CO2 emissions respond to human capital in BRICS economies?	79
Environmental costs of political instability in Pakistan: policy options for clean energy consumption and environment	79
Presence of microplastics in drinking water from freshwater sources: the investigation in Changsha, China	79
Environmental concerns of financial inclusion and economic policy uncertainty in the era of globalization: evidence from low & high globalized OECD economies	79
Reinvestigating the pollution haven hypothesis: the nexus between foreign direct investments and environmental quality in G-20 countries	79
Adopting distributed ledger technology for the sustainable construction industry: evaluating the barriers using Ordinal Priority Approach	79
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do natural gas, oil, and coal consumption ameliorate environmental quality? Empirical evidence from Russia	79
Does trade openness mitigate the environmental degradation in South Africa?	78
Production-based disaggregated analysis of energy consumption and CO2 emission nexus: evidence from the USA by novel dynamic ARDL simulation approach	78
Economic performance of Indonesia amidst CO2 emissions and agriculture: a time series analysis	78
Decarbonization pathways: the roles of foreign direct investments, governance, democracy, economic growth, and renewable energy transition	78
The impacts of organizational green culture and corporate social responsibility on employees’ responsible behaviour towards the society	78
A study of energy investment and environmental sustainability nexus in China: a bootstrap replications analysis	77
Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: a review	77
The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach	77
A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review of tourism-environmental degradation nexus	77
The environmental aspects of conventional and clean energy policy in sub-Saharan Africa: is N-shaped hypothesis valid?	77
A hybrid deep learning technology for PM2.5 air quality forecasting	77
Supply chain carbon emission reductions and coordination when consumers have a strong preference for low-carbon products	77
A supply chain disruption risk mitigation model to manage COVID-19 pandemic risk	77
Pathways to Argentina’s 2050 carbon-neutrality agenda: the roles of renewable energy transition and trade globalization	76
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Toward a sustainable environment: nexus between consumption-based carbon emissions, economic growth, renewable energy and technological innovation in Brazil	76
An investigation on gas emission concentration and relative emission rate of the near-dry wire-cut electrical discharge machining process	76
What drives ecological footprint in top ten tourist destinations? Evidence from advanced panel techniques	76
Extraction and characterization of phenolic compounds and their potential antioxidant activities	76
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The shadow economy in South Asia: dynamic effects on clean energy consumption and environmental pollution	76
The impact of digital economy on total factor carbon productivity: the threshold effect of technology accumulation	76
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Energy financing for energy retrofit in COVID-19: Recommendations for green bond financing	76
Antibiotic resistance in the environment: a critical insight on its occurrence, fate, and eco-toxicity	76
Judging the sources of inferior groundwater quality and health risk problems through intake of groundwater nitrate and fluoride from a rural part of Telangana, India	76
COVID-19 fear and volatility index movements: empirical insights from ASEAN stock markets	75
Modelling Internet of things (IoT)-driven global sustainability in multi-tier agri-food supply chain under natural epidemic outbreaks	75
The effects of FDI and government expenditures on environmental pollution in Korea: the pollution haven hypothesis revisited	75
A review of environmental occurrence, analysis, bioaccumulation, and toxicity of organophosphate esters	75
Does multilateral environmental diplomacy improve environmental quality? The case of the United States	75
Determinants of ecological footprint in OCED countries: do environmental-related technologies reduce environmental degradation?	75
Environmental regulation and manufacturing carbon emissions in China: a new perspective on local government competition	74
Towards a green economic policy framework in China: role of green investment in fostering clean energy consumption and environmental sustainability	74
Impact of climate change on cereal production: evidence from lower-middle-income countries	74
Estimating the macroeconomic determinants of total, renewable, and non-renewable energy demands in Bangladesh: the role of technological innovations	74
Review on phase change materials for solar energy storage applications	74
Hydrate as a by-product in CO2 leakage during the long-term sub-seabed sequestration and its role in preventing further leakage	74
The role of economic complexity in the environmental Kuznets curve of MINT economies: evidence from method of moments quantile regression	74
Environmental and occupational exposure of metals and female reproductive health	74
Forecasting carbon emissions due to electricity power generation in Bahrain	74
Socio-economic and environmental impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan—an integrated analysis	74
Prediction of meteorological drought by using hybrid support vector regression optimized with HHO versus PSO algorithms	74
Do geopolitical risk and energy consumption contribute to environmental degradation? Evidence from E7 countries	73
Advanced microbial fuel cell for waste water treatment—a review	73
Water quality assessment of a river using deep learning Bi-LSTM methodology: forecasting and validation	73
Modelling the globalization-CO2 emission nexus in Australia: evidence from quantile-on-quantile approach	73