The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

Non-ferrous smelting is a primary cause of serious soil pollution. Contamination and health
risks of heavy metals in soils around various types of non-ferrous smelteries in China were …

This review summarizes over 160 studies focused on soil contamination near non-ferrous
metal smelters. The methods of these investigations were examined with an emphasis on …

A large scale survey and a small scale continuous monitoring was conducted to evaluate the
impact of Pb/Zn smelting on soil heavy metals (HMs) accumulation and potential ecological …

Despite the urgent demand for sustainable mining, the revegetation and rehabilitation of
areas degraded by mining activities remain challenging. Uncertainties about species …

Revegetation is effective in improving soil quality in ecologically fragile areas. However, little
is known about the impact of diverse phytomanagement strategies of tailings on soil quality …

Abstract Metal and metalloid (As, Cd, Co, Cu, Pb and Zn) distribution in soils from the
Katanga Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of Congo) is investigated in order to characterize …

The regional environmental–geochemical surveying of the long-term impacts of mining and
ore processing on a large part of the Zambian Copperbelt mining district was carried out by …

Urban studies as a field is on the rise in Africa, environmental studies is a mainstay of
scholarship on or about the continent, and urban environments are increasingly central to …