Sand is an indispensable natural resource for any society. Despite society's increasing
dependence on sand, there are major challenges that this industry needs to deal with …

Nuclear power reactors are operating in 31 countries around the world. Along with reactor
operations, activities like mining, fuel fabrication, fuel reprocessing and military operations …

Trace metal pollution is a vital issue in ecological problems (air, soil, and water), and it
threatens human health in many urban areas worldwide. The accumulation of heavy metals …

Contamination of heavy metals represents one of the most pressing threats to water and soil
resources as well as human health. Phytoremediation can be potentially used to remediate …

Beaches and coastal dunes have always supplied sand for a wide range of uses, and
initially the extracted volumes were limited to buckets, wheelbarrows, or small pickup truck …

Study related to heavy metal pollution and subsequence health risk assessment adjacent to
landfills region is indispensable since landfills are a convergence point for hazardous …

The heavy metal contamination of soils and waters by metalliferous mining activities in an
area of Korea was studied. In the study area of the Imcheon Au–Ag mine, soils and waters …

Carbonate-rich mine tailings are exposed to severe erosion and dispersion in
Mediterranean climates. In Jalta mining area, the dispersion of particles that contain (Pb, Zn …

Four crop plant species (sweet corn, Zea may; wheat, Triticum aestivum; cucumber, Cucumis
sativus; and sorghum, Sorghum bicolor) were tested to assess an ecotoxicity in cadmium …

This study discussed the environmental fate and ecological hazards of heavy metals in the
soil-plant system and sediment-water column around the former Pb-Zn mining Zeïda district …