Health hazards of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) and its microbial reduction

P Sharma, SP Singh, SK Parakh, YW Tong - Bioengineered, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Industrial effluents/wastewater are the main sources of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI))
pollutants in the environment. Cr (VI) pollution has become one of the world's most serious …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals and pesticides toxicity in agricultural soil and plants: Ecological risks and human health implications

A Alengebawy, ST Abdelkhalek, SR Qureshi, MQ Wang - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental problems have always received immense attention from scientists. Toxicants
pollution is a critical environmental concern that has posed serious threats to human health …

Groundwater contamination status in Malaysia: level of heavy metal, source, health impact, and remediation technologies

A Ismanto, T Hadibarata, S Widada, E Indrayanti… - Bioprocess and …, 2023 - Springer
Groundwater is defined as water that exists underground in voids or gaps in sediments and
is extracted for human consumption from aquifers. It is critical to our daily lives because it …

A review of heavy metals' removal from aqueous matrices by Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): State-of-the art and recent advances

N Abdollahi, G Moussavi, S Giannakis - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface water and groundwater contamination by heavy metals is a global serious concern,
which despite its well-known character, still lacks a decisive application to tackle its harmful …

Bioremediation of chromium by microorganisms and its mechanisms related to functional groups

A Ayele, YG Godeto - Journal of Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heavy metals generated mainly through many anthropogenic processes, and some natural
processes have been a great environmental challenge and continued to be the concern of …

Comprehensive evaluation of environmental availability, pollution level and leaching heavy metals behavior in non-ferrous metal tailings

L Jiang, H Sun, T Peng, W Ding, B Liu, Q Liu - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amounts of abandoned non-ferrous metal tailings (NMT) piled in the open air are released
under geochemistry and migrated to the surrounding environment, causing severe harm to …

Epidemiological evidence for the effect of environmental heavy metal exposure on the immune system in children

K Zheng, Z Zeng, Q Tian, J Huang, Q Zhong… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals exist widely in daily life, and exposure to heavy metals caused by
environmental pollution has become a serious public health problem worldwide. Due to …

Role of microbes in bioaccumulation of heavy metals in municipal solid waste: Impacts on plant and human being

P Sharma, D Dutta, A Udayan, AK Nadda, SS Lam… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of heavy metals in municipal solid waste (MSW) is considered as prevalent
global pollutants that cause serious risks to the environment and living organisms. Due to …

Characterization of heavy metal pollution in an anthropogenically and geologically influenced semi-arid region of east India and assessment of ecological and human …

I Mukherjee, UK Singh, RP Singh, D Kumari… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study evaluated the heavy metal contamination in groundwater and associated
ecological and human health risks of a geologically and anthropogenically diverse semi-arid …

Estimation of spatial distribution and health risk by arsenic and heavy metals in shallow groundwater around Dongting Lake plain using GIS mapping

X Long, F Liu, X Zhou, J Pi, W Yin, F Li, S Huang, F Ma - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Potable groundwater has become the primary water source for the local population because
of the serious pollution of As and heavy metals in the surface water around the Dongting …