Ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metal (loid) s in agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, Southwest China

C Gong, S Wang, D Wang, H Lu, H Dong, J Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
To determine the heavy metal (loid) s (HMs) contamination of agricultural soil in hotbed
chives hometown of Tangchang, 788 topsoil samples were collected and analyzed for their …

Heavy metal contamination assessment and probabilistic health risks in soil and maize near coal mines

X Yang, B Cheng, Y Gao, H Zhang, L Liu - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective Coal mining activities have continuously introduced heavy metals into the soil–
crop system, causing increasing damage to crops. This study integrated the analysis of the …

Geographically weighted principal component analysis for characterising the spatial heterogeneity and connectivity of soil heavy metals in Kumasi, Ghana

EN Aidoo, SK Appiah, GE Awashie, A Boateng… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
The use of principal component analysis (PCA) for soil heavy metals characterization
provides useful information for decision making and policies regarding the potential sources …

Dynamic interactions between soil cadmium and zinc affect cadmium phytoavailability to rice and wheat: Regional investigation and risk modeling

Y Yang, Y Li, W Chen, M Wang, T Wang, Y Dai - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Characterizing the interactions between Cd and Zn with respect to the soil soluble Cd and
crop Cd uptake allows the development of risk-based approaches to the performance of …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metal pollution of soils and risk assessment in Houston, Texas following Hurricane Harvey

I Han, KW Whitworth, B Christensen, M Afshar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In August 2017, after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, almost 52 inches of rain fell
during a three-day period along the Gulf Coast Region of Texas, including Harris County …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals pollution from smelting activities: A threat to soil and groundwater

M Adnan, B Xiao, MU Ali, P Xiao, P Zhao… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Throughout the literature, the word" heavy metal"(HM) has been utilized to describe soil
contamination; in this context, we characterize it as those elements with a density greater …

Toxic metals in East African agro-ecosystems: Key risks for sustainable food production

LK Munishi, PA Ndakidemi, W Blake, S Comber… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The dramatic increase in world population underpins current escalating food demand, which
requires increased productivity in the available arable land through agricultural …

Contamination assessment, health risk evaluation, and source identification of heavy metals in the soil-rice system of typical agricultural regions on the southeast …

Y Ren, M Lin, Q Liu, Z Zhang, X Fei, R Xiao… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
To quantitatively assess heavy metal accumulation and potential ecological and human
health risks as well as analyze the sources of metals in a typical soil-rice system located on …

Spatial distribution and risk assessment of agricultural soil pollution by hazardous elements in a transboundary river basin

H Haghnazar, M Pourakbar, M Mahdavianpour… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The present study aimed to evaluate the sources of pollution and the potential human and
ecological risks of hazardous elements (HEs) in 40 hotspot sites of the agricultural soil …

Heavy metal pollution and human health risk assessment at mercury smelting sites in Wanshan district of Guizhou Province, China

Z Wu, L Zhang, T Xia, X Jia, S Wang - Rsc Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The Wanshan district of Guizhou Province has a long history of mercury mining and
smelting. Previous studies have been carried out on heavy metal (HM) pollution in the soil …