Abstract
Pollution is one of the main concerns for humanity, having a variety of causes (e.g., Ferraz et al. 2005, Lacerda et al. 2012). Hardly disputable, urbanization can be regarded as the leading factor in introducing pollutants to the environment, and due to the actual population growth, will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Despite the mounting general willingness of governments and policymakers to establish programs that can mitigate some of the negative side effects of urbanization, in many cases there is still a lack of knowledge regarding the processes that enable pollutants to spread and increasingly develop a negative role in the long term, such as the contamination of water by heavy metals.In the last publication of the year of the
Highlights
Pollution is one of the main concerns for humanity, having a variety of causes (e.g., Ferraz et al 2005, Lacerda et al 2012)
In the last publication of the year of the Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (AABC), Estefan M. da Fonseca (LAGEMAR - Universidade Federal Fluminense, RJ) and colleagues address the issue on how heavy metals are being fractioned in a specific polluted area situated directly in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro: the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon
Several attempts to develop substances with larvicidal effects against this mosquito have been published, including studies on essential oils obtained from Piper (e.g., Leyva et al 2009), a flowering plant that belongs to the so-called pepper family
Summary
Pollution is one of the main concerns for humanity, having a variety of causes (e.g., Ferraz et al 2005, Lacerda et al 2012). In the last publication of the year of the Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (AABC), Estefan M. da Fonseca (LAGEMAR - Universidade Federal Fluminense, RJ) and colleagues address the issue on how heavy metals are being fractioned in a specific polluted area situated directly in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro: the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.
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