• Chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in free-range chicken eggs and soil around waste disposal sites in Tanzania 

      Haarr, Ane; Nipen, Maja; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Mmochi, Aviti J.; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...
    • Chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in free-range chicken eggs and soil around waste disposal sites in Tanzania 

      Haarr, Ane; Nipen, Maja; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Mmochi, Aviti J.; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...
    • Environmental pollutants in the terrestrial and urban environment 2021. Revised report. 

      Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Moe, Børge; Herzke, Dorte; Borgen, Anders Røsrud; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Nordang, Unni Mette; Bæk, Kine; Nipen, Maja; Linda, Hanssen (NILU report;1/2023, Research report, 2023)
      Samples from the urban terrestrial environment in the Oslo area were analysed for metals and a large number of organic environmental pollutants. The selected samples that were analysed were soil, earthworm, fieldfare egg ...
    • Environmental pollutants in the terrestrial and urban environment 2022 

      Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Moe, Børge; Borgen, Anders; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Nordang, Unni Mette; Bæk, Kine; Nipen, Maja; Harju, Mikael; Hanssen, Linda (NILU report;23/2023, Research report, 2023)
      Samples of soil, earthworm, fieldfare egg, brown rat liver, spanish slug, house dust and cat liver from the urban terrestrial environment in the Oslo area were analysed for several different groups of environmental pollutants. ...
    • Homologue group profiles of ΣPCAs C14-17 in environmental samples from Norwegian monitoring programmes 

      Nipen, Maja; Borgen, Anders (NILU report;9/2024, Research report, 2024)
      Recently, chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14–17 and chlorination levels at or exceeding 45 per cent chlorine by weight have been proposed for listing under the Stockholm Convention. To aid the ...
    • Increasing Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic Contaminants in a Dated Sediment Core From East-Africa 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Christensen, Guttorm N; Mmochi, Aviti John; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Temporal trends of industrial organic contaminants can show how environmental burdens respond to changes in production, regulation, and other anthropogenic and environmental factors. Numerous studies have documented such ...
    • Målinger av miljøgifter i luft ved Franzefoss Eide på Sotra og Husøya ved Kristiansund 

      Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Vik, Aasmund Fahre; Mortensen, Tore; Andresen, Erik; Bæk, Kine; Davanger, Kirsten; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Gundersen, Hans; Hanssen, Linda; Harju, Mikael; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Röhler, Laura; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Skaar, Jøran Solnes (NILU rapport;26/2022, Research report, 2022)
      NILU har gjennomført måleprogram for konsentrasjoner i luft ved Franzefoss Gjenvinning AS sine anlegg ved Eide på Sotra og ved Husøya ved Kristiansund. Ved Eide ble det tatt prøver i luft og analysert for prioriterte ...
    • Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa 

      Nipen, Maja; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Breivik, Knut; Mmochi, Aviti J; Mwakalapa, Eliezer; Quant, M. Isabel; Schlabach, Martin; Vogt, Rolf David; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are large knowledge gaps concerning concentrations, sources, emissions, and spatial trends of mercury (Hg) in the atmosphere in developing regions of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in urban areas. Filling these ...
    • Monitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation. Annual report 2022. 

      Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Hartz, William Frederik (NILU report;18/2023, Research report, 2023)
      This report presents air monitoring data from 2022 for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants". The results cover 260 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated) and 16 compound groups, 14 heavy ...
    • Spatial trends of chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in air and soil in a tropical urban, suburban, and rural environment 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, anders Røsrud; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Ntapanta, Samwel Moses; Mmochi, Aviti John; Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are large knowledge gaps concerning environmental levels and fate of many organic pollutants, particularly for chemicals of emerging concern in tropical regions of the Global South. In this study, we investigated the ...