Preface

• 来源期刊: 中国科学：化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（5）
• 页码范围: 959-960
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11426-010-0207-8

摘要

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are semi-volatile chemical compounds that persist in the environment.They can bioaccumulate in biota and biomagnify through food chains, and consequently cause adverse effects to ecosystems and human health.POPs are now ubiquitous in the global environment due to processes such as evaporation-condensation and long-range transport by air and water from their initial sources.Global distillation, also called the grasshopper effect, scientifically explains how POPs are transported from industrial areas to remote environments such as the Arctic and Antarctica.