• Microplastic pellets in Arctic marine sediments: a common source or a common process? 

  Collard, France; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Philipp, Carolin; Herzke, Dorte; Hotvedt, Ådne; Galtung, Kristin; Rydningen, Tom Arne; Litti, Lucio; Gentili, Giulia; Husum, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Plastic consumption is increasing, and millions of tonnes of plastic are released into the oceans every year. Plastic materials are accumulating in the marine environment, especially on the seafloor. The Arctic is contaminated ...

• A pooled analysis of host factors that affect nucleotide excision repair in humans 

  Zheng, Congying; Shaposhnikov, Sergey; Collins, Andrew; Brunborg, Gunnar; Azqueta, Amaya; Langie, Sabine A.S.; Dusinska, Maria; Slyskova, Jana; Vodicka, Pavel; van Schooten, Frederik-Jan; Bonassi, Stefano; Milic, Mirta; Orlow, Irene; Godschalk, Roger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is crucial for repairing bulky lesions and crosslinks in DNA caused by exogenous and endogenous genotoxins. The number of studies that have considered DNA repair as a biomarker is limited, ...

• Hazard characterization of the mycotoxins enniatins and beauvericin to identify data gaps and improve risk assessment for human health 

  Behr, Anne-Cathrin; Fæste, Christiane Kruse; Azqueta, Amaya; Tavares, Ana M.; Spyropoulou, Anastasia; Solhaug, Anita; Olsen, Ann-Karin Hardie; Vettorazzi, Ariane; Mertens, Birgit; Zegura, Bojana; Streel, Camille; Ndiaye, Dieynaba; Spilioti, Eliana; Dubreil, Estelle; Buratti, Franca Maria; Crudo, Francesco; Eriksen, Gunnar Sundstøl; Snapkov, Igor; Teixeira, João Paulo; Rasinger, Josef; Sanders, Julie; Machera, Kyriaki; Ivanova, Lada; Gaté, Laurent; Le Hegarat, Ludovic; Novak, Matjaz; Smith, Nicola Margareta; Tait, Sabrina; Fraga, Sónia; Hager, Sonja; Marko, Doris; Braeuning, Albert; Louro, Henriqueta; Silva, Maria João; Dirven, Hubert; Dietrich, Jessica (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Enniatins (ENNs) and beauvericin (BEA) are cyclic hexadepsipeptide fungal metabolites which have demonstrated antibiotic, antimycotic, and insecticidal activities. The substantial toxic potentials of these mycotoxins are ...

• Methane emissions from Australia estimated by inverse analysis using in-situ and Satellite (GOSAT) atmospheric observations 

  Wang, Fenjuan; Maksyutov, Shamil; Janardanan, Rajesh; Ito, Akihiko; Morino, Isamu; Yoshida, Yukio; Someya, Yu; Tohjima, Yasunori; Kelly, Bryce F. J.; Kaiser, Johannes; Xin, Lan; Mammarella, Ivan; Matsunaga, Tsuneo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Australia has significant sources of atmospheric methane (CH₄), driven by extensive coal and natural gas production, livestock, and large-scale fires. Accurate quantification and characterization of CH₄ emissions are ...

• Sb-PiPLU: A Novel Parametric Activation Function for Deep Learning 

  Mondal, Ayan; Shrivastava, Vimal K.; Chatterjee, Ayan; Ramachandra, Raghavendra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  The choice of activation function—particularly non-linear ones—plays a vital role in enhancing the classification performance of deep neural networks. In recent years, a variety of non-linear activation functions have been ...

• Addressing the advantages and limitations of using Aethalometer data to determine the optimal absorption Ångström exponents (AAEs) values for eBC source apportionment 

  Savadkoohi, Marjan; Gerras, Mohamed; Favez, Olivier; Petit, Jean-Eudes; Rovira, Jordi; Chen, Gang I.; Via, Marta; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Aurela, Minna; Chazeau, Benjamin; De Brito, Joel F.; Riffault, Véronique; Eleftheriadis, Kostas; Flentje, Harald; Gysel-Beer, Martin; Hueglin, Christoph; Rigler, Martin; Gregorič, Asta; Ivančič, Matic; Keernik, Hannes; Maasikmets, Marek; Liakakou, Eleni; Stavroulas, Iasonas; Luoma, Krista; Marchand, Nicolas; Mihalopoulos, Nikos; Petäjä, Tuukka; Prévôt, André S.H.; Daellenbach, Kaspar R.; Vodička, Petr; Timonen, Hilkka; Tobler, Anna; Vasilescu, Jeni; Dandocsi, Andrei; Mbengue, Saliou; Vratolis, Stergios; Zografou, Olga; Chauvigné, Aurélien; Hopke, Philip K.; Querol, Xavier; Alastuey, Andrés; Pandolfi, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  The apportionment of equivalent black carbon (eBC) to combustion sources from liquid fuels (mainly fossil; eBCLF) and solid fuels (mainly non-fossil; eBCSF) is commonly performed using data from Aethalometer instruments ...

• New Approach Methods (NAMs) for genotoxicity assessment of nano- and advanced materials; Advantages and challenges 

  Gutleb, Arno; Murugadoss, Sivakumar; Stepnik, Maciej; SenGupta, Tanima; El Yamani, Naouale; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Olsen, Ann-Karin Hardie; Wyrzykowska, Ewelina; Jagiello, Karolina; Judzinska, Beata; Cambier, Sebastien; Honza, Tatiana; McFadden, Erin; Shaposhnikov, Sergey; Puzyn, Tomasz; Serchi, Tommaso; Weber, Pamina; Arnesdotter, Emma; Skakalova, Vier; Jirsova, Katerina; Grudzinski, Ireneusz; Collins, Andrew; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Genotoxicity assessment is essential for ensuring chemical safety and mitigating risks to human health and the environment. Traditional methods, reliant on animal models, are time-consuming, costly, and raise ethical ...

• New Approach Methods (NAMs) for genotoxicity assessment of nano- and advanced materials; Advantages and challenges 

  Gutleb, Arno; Murugadoss, Sivakumar; Stepnik, Maciej; SenGupta, Tanima; El Yamani, Naouale; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Olsen, Ann-Karin Hardie; Wyrzykowska, Ewelina; Jagiello, Karolina; Judzinska, Beata; Cambier, Sebastien; Honza, Tatiana; McFadden, Erin; Shaposhnikov, Sergey; Puzyn, Tomasz; Serchi, Tommaso; Weber, Pamina; Arnesdotter, Emma; Skakalova, Vier; Jirsova, Katerina; Grudzinski, Ireneusz; Collins, Andrew; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Genotoxicity assessment is essential for ensuring chemical safety and mitigating risks to human health and the environment. Traditional methods, reliant on animal models, are time-consuming, costly, and raise ethical ...

• Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in eggs of yellow-legged gulls from Southern France 

  Jouanneau, William; Boulinier, Thierry; Herzke, Dorte; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing; Chastel, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  More than 70 years of industrial production of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have resulted in their ubiquitous presence in the environment on a global scale, although differences in sources, transport and fate ...

• Investigating the impact of climate change on PCB-153 exposure in Arctic seabirds with the nested exposure model 

  Skogeng, Lovise Pedersen; Blévin, Pierre; Breivik, Knut; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Eulaers, Igor; Sagerup, Kjetil; Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  At the same time Arctic ecosystems experiences rapid climate change, at a rate four times faster than the global average, they remain burdened by long-range transported pollution, notably with legacy polychlorinated biphenyls ...

• An Introduction to prismAId: Open-Source and Open Science AI for Advancing Information Extraction in Systematic Reviews 

  Boero, Riccardo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  prismAId is an open-source tool designed to streamline systematic literature reviews by leveraging generative AI models for information extraction. It offers an accessible, efficient, and replicable method for extracting ...

• Future CH4 as modelled by a fully coupled Earth system model: prescribed GHG concentrations vs. interactive CH4 sources and sinks 

  Im, Ulas; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Bauer, Susanne; Shindell, Drew; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo; Wilson, Simon; Sørensen, Lise Lotte; Langen, Peter; Eckhardt, Sabine (Journal article, 2025)

  We have used the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Earth system model GISS-E2.1 to study the future budgets and trends of global and regional CH4 under different emission scenarios, using both the prescribed ...

• Dust in the arctic: a brief review of feedbacks and interactions between climate change, aeolian dust and ecosystems 

  Meinander, Outi; Uppstu, Andreas; Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Pavla; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Jørgensen, Christian Juncher; Baklanov, Alexander; Kristensson, Adam; Massling, Andreas; Sofiev, Mikhail (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Climatic feedbacks and ecosystem impacts related to dust in the Arctic include direct radiative forcing (absorption and scattering), indirect radiative forcing (via clouds and cryosphere), semi-direct effects of dust on ...

• A scalable framework for harmonizing, standardization, and correcting crowd-sourced low-cost sensor PM2.5 data across Europe 

  Hassani, Amirhossein; Salamalikis, Vasileios; Schneider, Philipp; Stebel, Kerstin; Castell, Nuria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Citizen-operated low-cost air quality sensors (LCSs) have expanded air quality monitoring through community engagement. However, still challenges related to lack of semantic standards, data quality, and interoperability ...

• Unchanged PM2.5 levels over Europe during COVID-19 were buffered by ammonia 

  Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Tichý, Ondřej; Otervik, Marit Svendby; Eckhardt, Sabine; Balkanski, Yves; Hauglustaine, Didier A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  The coronavirus outbreak in 2020 had a devastating impact on human life, albeit a positive effect on the environment, reducing emissions of primary aerosols and trace gases and improving air quality. In this paper, we ...

• Glasopor Fredrikstad. Kartlegging av støvutslipp og effekter på ytre miljø. Vurdering av utslipp til luft i forbindelse med utslippssøknad. 

  Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Weydahl, Torleif; Mortensen, Tore; Andresen, Erik; Grythe, Henrik (NILU rapport;21/2024, Research report, 2024)

  NILU har, på oppdrag fra Glasopor AS ved Onsøy i Fredrikstad, kartlagt utslipp av støv fra anlegget og effekter på ytre miljø. Bedriften ønsker å oppgradere anlegget og øke produksjonen og har søkt om ny utslippstillatelse. ...

• MusicReco: Interactive Interface Modeling With User-Centered Design in a Music Recommendation System 

  Frantzvaag, Mats Ottem; Chatterjee, Ayan; Ghose, Debasish; Dash, Soumya P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Recommendation technologies are widespread in streaming services, e-commerce, social media, news, and content management. Besides recommendation generation, its presentation is also important. Most research and development ...

• Metaller, PCB, PAH og dioksiner i mose i Sør-Varanger. Moseundersøkelser 2008, 2015 og 2020 

  Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Schlabach, Martin; Eckhardt, Sabine; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Bjørklund, Morten; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Aandahl, Tone R.; Fjelldal, Erling (NILU rapport;2/2025, Research report, 2025)

  I 2008 samlet Svanhovd Miljøsenter inn mose ved lokaliteter i grenseområdene mot Russland som NILU analyserte for 11 metaller, PCB, PAH og dioksiner. Formålet var å undersøke om det var andre kilder til forurensning i ...

• Målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon. Kalenderår 2024 

  Hak, Claudia; Barrault, Sébastien Oftedal; Andresen, Erik (NILU rapport;4/2025, Research report, 2025)

  På oppdrag fra Elkem Carbon AS har NILU utført målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon i Kristiansand. Målingene ble utført med SO2-monitor i boligområdet på Fiskåtangen (Konsul Wilds vei). I tillegg ble SO2 målt ...

• Statusrapport 2024. Nasjonalt referanselaboratorium for luftkvalitetsmålinger 

  Marsteen, Leif; Johnsrud, Mona (NILU rapport;, Research report, 2024)

  Denne rapporten oppsummerer oppgavene til Nasjonalt referanselaboratorium for luftkvalitetsmålinger (NRL), delkontrakt 1b, for første halvår 2024.

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