Vanadium belongs to the group of transition metals and is present in the air and soil
contaminants in large urban agglomerations due to combustion of fossil fuels. It forms …

Thirty five bottom sediment samples were collected in a grid pattern from Wadi Al-Arab Dam.
The present study focuses on the levels of Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Cd, total organic matter (TOM) …

The water-level-fluctuation zone (WLFZ) between the elevations of 145–175 m in China's
Three Gorges Reservoir has experienced a novel hydrological regime with half a year (May …

The pollution of aquatic ecosystems by heavy metals has assumed serious proportions due
to their toxicity and accumulative behavior. River dams are especially at risk of …

Anthropogenic activities in river basins, especially large-scale water conservancy projects,
have notably impacted the physical, chemical and ecological environments of estuaries and …

Countries globally trade with tons of waste materials every year, some of which are highly
hazardous. This trade admits a network representation of the world-wide waste web, with …

Water draining from heavily industrialized basins introduces significant amounts of
pollutants to the rivers water and sediments. Heavy industrial activities in the Shatt Al-Arab …

Mercury (Hg) and 13 other trace elements (Al, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and
Pb) were measured in phytoplankton, zooplankton, mysis and herring in order to examine …

Based on ten heavy metals collected twice annually at 59 sites from 1998 to 2004,
enrichment factors (EFs), principal component analysis (PCA) and multivariate linear …

Coral reefs of the Persian Gulf are vulnerable to the potentially toxic metals (PTMs)
accumulated in the ambient sediments. Nonetheless, few studies have investigated the …