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Editorial: Advances In Pollutant Transport In Critical Zone Environments, Huilian Ma, Yusong Li, Chongyang Shen, Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos, Hyunjung Kim

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

One major environmental challenge facing humankind is the constantly increasing pollution of water and soil resources on a global scale. The substances that cause such pollution arise primarily from human-made wastes, including agricultural and industrial wastes, household garbage, oil spills, and other toxic materials. The spatiotemporal distribution of these polluting substances in soil and water systems is determined by an interplay of many factors such as physicochemical properties of pollutants, soil grain properties and structure, fluid flow chemistry and velocity, biological activity, and other environmental factors (temperature, precipitation). In this issue, we have collected a series of articles that advance …