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Ying Liu, Wenjing Shen, Kaixuan Fan, Weihao Pei and Shaomin Liu
The impacts of heavy metal pollution in arable soil on agricultural production, environmental health, and the wellbeing of urban and rural residents cannot be overlooked. It has become a significant bottleneck in achieving comprehensive rural revitalizat...
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Aryatara Shakya, Matthew Dodson, Janick F. Artiola, Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, Robert A. Root, Xinxin Ding, Jon Chorover and Raina M. Maier
Arsenic is ubiquitous in soil and water environments and is consistently at the top of the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) substance priority list. It has been shown to induce toxicity even at low levels of exposure. One of the major...
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Jesús Plácido Medina Salas, Francisco Gamarra Gómez, Elisban Juani Sacari Sacari, Wilson Orlando Lanchipa Ramos, Rocío María Tamayo Calderón, Efracio Mamani Flores, Víctor Yapuchura Platero, Walter Dimas Florez Ponce de León and Elmer Marcial Limache Sandoval
Arsenic (III) exposure, often from contaminated water, can have severe health repercussions. Chronic exposure to this toxic compound is linked to increased risks of various health issues. Various technologies exist for arsenic (III) removal from contamin...
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Guirong Wu, Kang Mei, Caimei He, Sujuan Wang and Liling Jiang
Increasing arsenic (As) pollution is posing potential endangerment to mangrove wetland ecosystems. Mangrove phytoextraction, translocation, and responses to As exposure must be urgently addressed. In this study, the growth and physiological response of K...
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Michael E. Deary, Patrick M. Amaibi, John R. Dean and Jane A. Entwistle
Aqueous modelling of chemical speciation in simulated lung fluid (SLF) enables a better understanding of the underlying chemical factors that influence metal(loid) inhalation bioaccessibility from airborne particulate matter. Such an approach can be used...
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Alex G. Stewart and Ewan Wilkinson
Following environmental pollution exposure, calls to screen the population for disease or disease markers are often made. Population screening is a cross-sectional review of a population to find latent cases or biomarkers of disease that indicate the pos...
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María Custodio, Walter Cuadrado, Richard Peñaloza, Raúl Montalvo, Salomé Ochoa and Jocelyn Quispe
Water pollution by heavy metals is one of the leading environmental concerns as a result of intense anthropogenic pressure on the aquatic environment. This constitutes a significant limitation to the human right of access to drinking water. In this conte...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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Clare Pace, Julie Smith-Gagen and Jeff Angermann
Arsenic methylation capacity is associated with metabolic syndrome and its components among highly exposed populations. However, this association has not been investigated in low to moderately exposed populations. Therefore, we investigated arsenic methy...
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John Misenheimer, Clay Nelson, Evelyn Huertas, Myriam Medina-Vera, Alex Prevatte and Karen Bradham
Arsenic (As) and lead (Pb) are two contaminants of concern associated with urban gardening. In Puerto Rico, data currently is limited on As and Pb levels in urban garden soils, soil metal (loid) bioaccessibility, and uptake of As and Pb in soil by edible...
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