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Zhongyou Yu, Rongwen Yao, Xun Huang and Yuting Yan
Intense anthropogenic activities pose a serious threat to groundwater quality in urban areas. Assessing pollution levels and the health risks of trace elements within urban groundwater is crucial for protecting the groundwater environment. In this study,...
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Youssra Ahouach, Abdennasser Baali, Abdellah Boushaba, Oualid Hakam, Khalil Azennoud, Aziza Lyazidi, Safaa Benmessaoud, Amine Assouguem, Mohammed Kara, Mona Abdullah Alsaigh, Amal M. Al-Mohaimeed and Tse-Wei Chen
In order to qualify and quantify the impact of sediment contamination in hydric settings by metallic trace elements (MTE) emanating from the controlled dump of Fez city (northern Morocco), leachate and sediment sample analyses were carried out. The leach...
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Vera I. Poletaeva, Mikhail V. Pastukhov and Pavel G. Dolgikh
The relevance of studying the spatial-temporal dynamics in the trace element composition of the water at the Angara River source is associated not only with determining the degree of anthropogenic load on the local area of the water body but also with th...
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Eleni Prifti, Helen Kaberi, Vasiliki Paraskevopoulou, Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Christina Zeri, Stylianos Iliakis, Manos Dassenakis and Michael Scoullos
The Saronikos Gulf is under a lot of anthropogenic pressure, such as the urban expansion of the metropolitan area of Athens, the port of Piraeus and marinas, industrial activities, and tourism. Heavy metal pollution has been a major environmental problem...
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Madurya Adikaram, Amarasooriya Pitawala, Hiroaki Ishiga, Daham Jayawardana and Carla M. Eichler
The land-sea interface is considered as a threatening environment due to anthropogenic development activities. Unplanned developments can cause effects on important ecosystems, water and human health as well. In this study, the influence of rapid regiona...
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Cecilia Herbón, María Teresa Barral and Remigio Paradelo
With the objective of increasing information inorganic pollutants in urban soils in Spain, we studied the presence of Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr, and As in 55 soils in the city of Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain). The soils were developed over diverse...
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Lorena Basso, Paride Papadia, Lucia Rizzo, Danilo Migoni, Francesco P. Fanizzi and Stefano Piraino
Jellyfish as food represent a millennial tradition in Asia. Recently, jellyfish have also been proposed as a valuable source of protein in Western countries. To identify health risks associated with the potential human consumption of jellyfish as food, t...
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Stefano Loppi, Adelmo Corsini and Luca Paoli
Air quality monitoring in many urban areas is based on sophisticated and costly equipment to check for the respect of environmental quality standards, but capillary monitoring is often not feasible due to economic constraints. In such cases, the use of l...
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Marianna Cangemi, Paolo Madonia, Ludovico Albano, Alessandro Bonfardeci, Maria Grazia Di Figlia, Roberto Maria Rosario Di Martino, Marco Nicolosi and Rocco Favara
We collected and analysed 58 samples of groundwater from wells in the Barcellona-Milazzo Plain, one of the most important coastal aquifers of Sicily (Italy), to determine major, minor, and trace element concentrations. In this area, geogenic and anthropo...
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Suwalee Worakhunpiset
This review summarizes the findings from studies of trace element levels in marine sediment and organisms in the Gulf of Thailand. Spatial and temporal variations in trace element concentrations were observed. Although trace element contamination levels ...
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