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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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Paulo Torres, Ander Larrea Llopis, Carlos Sousa Melo and Armindo Rodrigues
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal particularly susceptible to mobilization by anthropogenic and natural processes. The volcanic nature of oceanic islands in the Macaronesia geographical region such as the Azores archipelago, located near the Mid...
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Mariusz Kluska and Joanna Jablonska
In recent years, human impact on the Earth?s ecological environment has become increasingly visible, with serious negative consequences. One of the most important pollutants are heavy metals which can easily bind to sediments. Due to their toxic behavior...
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María Pachés, Remedios Martínez-Guijarro, Inmaculada Romero and Daniel Aguado
This study evaluated the presence and significance of the concentrations and spatial distribution of seven metals (Cr, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Pb) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The concentrations were determined in surface sediments (taken a...
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Biao Zhou, Tiejian Zhang and Fei Wang
There are several industrial processes in which heavy metals are used, including but not limited to chrome plating and tanning. Amongst the most toxic heavy metals to human health are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, nickel, and mercury. The afo...
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Syaifullah Muhammad, Esam Bashir Yahya, H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, M. Marwan and Yonss M. Albadn
The global demand for clean water has become increasingly important in the past decade as a result of the growing world population, civilization, and the increase in sources of contaminations. Aerogels are an exceptional form of porous materials with ext...
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Vladimír Fri?ták, Diana Bo?anská, Vladimír Turcan, Martin Pipí?ka, Christoph Pfeifer and Gerhard Soja
The recovery of sludge produced in the wastewater treatment process in WWTPs is often limited by the high content of toxic forms of contaminants of both an inorganic and organic nature. One of the options for the effective treatment of the world?s ever-i...
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Simone Perna, Zainab Ali AL-Qallaf and Qaisar Mahmood
Modern urban societies generate tremendous amounts of hazardous wastes, including toxic organics and metals. Toxic metals harm plants and pose a risk to human health; examples of them are copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), palladium (Pb), and cadmium (Cd). Wetland ...
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Daniyal Sher Bahadur, Samreen Riaz Ahmed, Altaf Hussain Lahori, Tanveer Hussain, Sofia Khalique Alvi, Sheraz Shafique, Sadia Fatima, Viola Vambol, Monika Mierzwa-Hersztek, Preeta Hinduja, Sergij Vambol and Zengqiang Zhang
The present study was aimed to assess the efficacy of individual and combined effects of novel fuller earth, rock phosphate, and biochar (grapefruit peel) at 1% dosage on maize plant growth, soil chemical properties anduptake of toxic metals (TMs), such ...
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Mariana Martínez-Castrejón, Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, Oscar Talavera-Mendoza, América L. Rodríguez-Herrera, Omar Solorza-Feria, Osbelia Alcaraz-Morales, Jazmin A. López-Díaz and Giovanni Hernández-Flores
Climate change, urbanization, and population growth, particularly in urban areas such as Acapulco, Mexico, put pressure on water availability, where although surrounded by water, the inhabitants lack enough good-quality water, especially in the rainy sea...
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