Heavy metals, such as cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, are essential in
trace amounts for growth by plants and other living organisms. However, in excessive …

Cadmium (Cd) contamination in paddy soil has caused public concern. The uptake of Cd by
rice plants depends on soil Cd mobility, which is in turn substantially influenced by organic …

An estimated 23 million people live on floodplains affected by potentially dangerous
concentrations of toxic waste derived from past and present metal mining activity. We …

Soil contamination with heavy metals due to mining activities poses risks to ecological safety
and human well-being. Limited studies have investigated heavy metal pollution due to …

Many remediation options have been applied to the heavy metal-contaminated agricultural
soils nearby abandoned mining sites mainly due to hazard effects of heavy metals to human …

In order to identify spatial relationship of heavy metals in soil–rice system at a regional scale,
96 pairs of rice and soil samples were collected from Wenling in Zhejiang province, China …

Mining and milling operations, including grinding, concentrating ores and disposal of
tailings, along with mine and mill waste water, provide obvious sources of contamination in …

The environmental impact of arsenic and heavy metals on a 105 km 2 area of the historical
and recent mining site of Villa de la Paz-Matehuala, San Luis Potosí (Mexico) was …

Food crops cultivation on the contaminated soil is a health concerning issue that requires
effective solution. This study, reports the application of different particle size biochar for …

Heavy metal concentrations were measured in soils and plants in and around a copper-
tungsten mine in southeast Korea to investigate the influence of past base metal mining on …