Heavy metal pollution is a nefarious issue with implications for life. Heavy metals are natural
occurring elements, having both natural and anthropogenic sources. The latter are however …

Elucidating the transfer behaviour of heavy metals from soils to grains and ultimately to
humans is of great significance for both human health risk assessment and pollution control …

Gentle remediation options (GROs) are risk management strategies or technologies
involving plant (phyto-), fungi (myco-), and/or bacteria-based methods that result in a net …

Soil characterization is a vital activity to develop appropriate and effective restoration
protocols for mine wastelands while insights into the total content of heavy metals in the soil …

Maize plant tissues and rhizosphere soil were collected from an agricultural area around the
Huludao Zinc Plant in Liaoning Province, China, to investigate the effects of soil pH and …

Purpose The total concentration of trace elements in soils does not always represent the
fraction available for organisms and/or plants because they accumulate in several …

Purpose phytoremediation with native species is a low cost technique for recovering
contaminated soils avoiding ecological risks associated to the use of non-native species …

Abandoned mines are a recurrent problem for nearby communities in Mediterranean
regions because mine tailings represent a major source of polymetallic contamination. Metal …

A field investigation on the content of heavy metals in soils and 17 kinds of dominant plants
from wasteland of the downstream of a Pb-Zn mine in Northwest Guangxi Zhuang …

The improper stockpiling of lead/zinc mine tailings results in significant toxic impurities
releasing, which threatens both the surrounding environment and human health. Cemented …