Levels of heavy metals in soil and vegetables and associated health risks in Mojo area, Ethiopia

HR Gebeyehu, LD Bayissa - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Health implications to the population due to the consumption of contaminated vegetables
has been a great concern all over the world. In this study, the levels of heavy metals (Cr, Cd …

Monitoring the spatial distribution pattern according to urban land use and health risk assessment on potential toxic metal contamination via street dust in Ankara …

O Isinkaralar, K Isinkaralar, EP Bayraktar - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2023 - Springer
The urbanization processes with growing vehicle numbers cause heavy metal pollution in
street dust, and high populations in metropolitan cities are exposed to pollutants. This paper …

Baseline concentrations, source apportionment, and probabilistic risk assessment of heavy metals in urban street dust in Northeast Brazil

LHV Lima, CWA do Nascimento, FBV da Silva… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution by accelerating urbanization is an emerging socio-environmental
issue that poses a potential risk to human health and the environment. In this scenario, street …

Potentially toxic elements in street dust from an urban city of a developing country: ecological and probabilistic health risks assessment

MH Kabir, T Kormoker, MS Islam, R Khan… - … science and pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Anthropogenic activities in and around the urban highways followed by aerodynamic
processing generate street dusts, which can cause adverse health effects through different …

Ecological and health risk assessment of heavy metals in the Hattar industrial estate, Pakistan

S Jehan, SA Khattak, S Muhammad, R Ahmad… - Toxin …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to determine the heavy metals (HMs) contaminations in soil of the Hattar
industrial estate (HIE), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. For this purpose, various types of soils …

Investigation of the extent of contamination of heavy metals in agricultural soil using statistical analyses and contamination indices

M Esmaeilzadeh, J Jaafari… - … and Ecological Risk …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
To examine the level of contamination of Eshghabad region, Neyshabur, the concentration
of heavy metals in soil was measured. For this purpose, 37 samples were taken from surface …

A review on toxic metal pollution and source-oriented risk apportionment in road dust of a highly polluted megacity in Bangladesh

R Proshad, HC Dey, SA Ritu, A Baroi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Heavy metal enrichment in road dust has resulted from intensive anthropogenic activity,
particularly urbanization, industrial activities and traffic emission, posing a hazard to urban …

Geogenic and anthropogenic sources identification and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in the urban soil of Yazd, central Iran

S Soltani-Gerdefaramarzi, M Ghasemi, B Ghanbarian - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Urban soil pollution with heavy metals is one of the environmental problems in recent years,
especially in industrial cities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of geogenic and …

Evaluation and environmental risk assessment of heavy metals in the soil released from e-waste management activities in Lahore, Pakistan

S Shakil, K Nawaz, Y Sadef - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023 - Springer
In developing regions, electronic waste either gets recycled by using crude and primitive
techniques in recycling centers or dumped in dumping grounds that result in the leaching of …

Environmental monitoring and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in farmland soils

S Rostami, H Kamani, S Shahsavani… - Human and Ecological …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to investigate the concentration of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn,
and As) and assess their ecological risk in agricultural soils of Kamfiruz district, Fras, Iran …