This series covers leading-edge research in a cross-section of fields focusing on the environment, including current research data on corporate environmental reporting and disclosure; effects of the fungicide and biocide dichlofluanid on living organisms; levels and trends of organochlorine pesticides; rhetoric construction of environmental values in business; diversity of fungi on submerged leaf and woody litter; water quality and sustainable development; identifying sources of fecal pollution in water with antibiotic resistance patterns and antimicrobial treatments of mold and bacteria.