Many industrial by-products have been disposed along coastlines, generating profound
marine changes. Phosphogypsum (PG) is a solid by-product generated in the production of …

Microplastics (MPs) are considered as emergent threat to human health. No complete data
still exists on MPs presence in fish tissue and their transmission to humans. The present …

The growing urban wastewater volume poses a major global environmental challenge,
especially in developing nations where inadequate treatment and discharge impact clean …

This study investigated the tissue-and species-specific bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Cr,
Cu, Hg, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb) in three benthic bivalves (the ark shell, Scapharca subcrenata; …

Since the establishment of the coastal industrial complex in Gabes city (Gulf of Gabes, SE
Tunisia), hundred million tons of untreated phosphogypsum have been discharged in the …

Abstract The Gabes Gulf had received huge quantities of phosphogypsum discharged from
fertilizer plants. Dumping phosphogypsum in coastal waters leads to the formation of foam …

In order to investigate the current distribution of metal concentrations in surface marine
sediments of the southern coast of Sfax (Tunisia), thirty-nine samples were collected in the …

Although several studies previously assessed the contents of trace metals in the sediments
of the heavily human-impacted lagoon of Bizerte (northern Tunisia), multi-analytical …

Temperature, pH and trace elements (F, P, Cr, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb) contents were
determined in 16 stations as well as in 2 industrial and 2 domestic discharge sources, in the …

Abstract Copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) often discharge simultaneously from industrial and
agricultural sectors and cause stress to aquatic biota. Although microalgae have been …