A large amount of agrochemicals and organic manures are applied on agricultural lands
which is one of the major pathways of metal contamination in sediments. The present study …

Large river deltas are characterized by complicated land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics
driven by intertwined natural and anthropogenic processes. Understanding spatiotemporal …

The estuary and its nearshore waters are of great ecological value. As one of the important
water quality evaluation indicators, suspended particulate matter (SPM) is also relevant to …

Little information is available on the impacts of coastal reclamation on wetland loss in large-
river deltas at a regional scale. Using remote sensing data of coastal wetland and …

As one of the most important wetland systems, coastal wetlands play an important role in
conserving water, regulating the climate and protecting biodiversity. However, due to large …

Land use has a greater impact on trace element (TE) concentration present in soils. In
mountainous regions of the western Himalayas, some dominating geogenic and human …

This present study is aimed at evaluating the level of environmental degradation and
potential ecological risk in soils around an active (tantalum-niobium) mining site of Iludun …

Human health is threatened by significant emissions of heavy metals into the urban
environment due to various activities. Various studies describing health risk analyses on soil …

The transfer of toxic metals from soil to honey was studied based on two different areas of
the Podkarpackie region located in the south-east part of Poland: U-urbanized and E …

Uranium (U) contamination due to mining and metallurgical operations is a serious problem
and poses a high potential threat to humans and other organisms. The application of …