Pollution of soils with As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn, collectively termed heavy metals
(HMs), can threaten human health and ecosystem functioning. Therefore, polluted soils must …

Cadmium (Cd) is a naturally occurring element present in all soils from both geogenic and
anthropogenic sources. The primary risk pathway to humans is exposure through dietary …

Sulfidic mine waste can pose environmental and human health risks, especially when it
contains high levels of mobile metal (loid) s. To assess the environmental and health risks of …

In the paper, hydrothermally (HT) treated, sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4), and hydrochloric acid
(HCl) washed fly ashes (FA) were used to examine the applied effects with and without …

Five Aspergillus sections have members that are established agricultural pests and
producers of different metabolites, threatening global food safety. Most of these pathogenic …

The chemical stabilization, or immobilization, of trace elements (metals and metalloids; TE)
in contaminated soil has been studied for decades. A vast number of scientific publications …

Soil plays an important role in controlling the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and
contaminants in the environment. Reliable analytical techniques are critical to better …

The real biological effect is not generated by the total content of heavy metals (HMs), but
rather by bioavailable content. A new bioavailability-based ecological risk assessment (BA …

In the last decade, several laboratory-scale experiments have shown the use of nanoscale
zero-valent iron (nZVI) to be effective in reducing metal (loid) availability in polluted soils …

Total cadmium (Cd) cannot be used to accurately assess the ecological risk of Cd pollution
in soil. Currently there is no universally recognized method to evaluate Cd bioavailability in …