Unlocking the potential of biochar in the remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals for sustainable agriculture

Z Maqbool, MS Farooq, A Rafiq, M Uzair… - Functional Plant …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Agricultural contaminated soil, including some heavy metals (HMs), imposes a critical threat
to the environmental systems as well as human health. The amendment of biochar could be …

Underutilised Plants as Potential Phytoremediators for Inorganic Pollutants Decontamination

LY Phang, M Mohammadi, L Mingyuan - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2023 - Springer
Pollution caused by inorganic compounds is an emerging threat due to their persistence in
the environment. The fate of inorganic pollutants or heavy metals is greatly influenced by the …

[HTML][HTML] Uptake of lead and zinc from soil by blackberry plants (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) and translocation from roots to leaves

LF Steingräber, C Ludolphy, J Metz, H Kierdorf… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metals transported by rivers are deposited in sediments and floodplains, and
floodplain soils act as both sinks and sources of these metals. The Innerste River is …

Fractionation, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of selected metals in the soil of public parks of Lahore, Pakistan

YK Khan, MH Shah - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
The aim of this study is to evaluate the mobility/availability of potentially toxic elements in the
soil of public parks to assess the environmental quality and potential health risks. The …

Assessment of Chemical Properties, Heavy Metals, and Metalloid Contamination in Floodplain Soils under the Influence of Copper Mining: A Case Study of Sibay …

R Suleymanov, E Dorogaya, A Gareev, A Minnegaliev… - Ecologies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ecotoxicological condition of soils around mining areas is most often unsatisfactory,
which affects entire ecosystems and human health. This research sought to analyze the …

Critically raw materials as potential emerging environmental contaminants, their distribution patterns, risks and behaviour in floodplain soils contaminated by heavy …

R Kanianska, M Drimal, J Varga, M Komárek… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The expanding demand for new critical raw materials can lead to their increased release to
the environment in the form of emerging environmental contaminants (EECs). However …

Environmental risk associated with accumulation of toxic metalloids in soils of the Odra River floodplain—case study of the assessment based on total concentrations …

D Kawałko, A Karczewska, K Lewińska - Environmental Geochemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
The floodplain soils are often heavily enriched in metal (loid) s released from the industrial
areas. A related environmental risk depends on their total concentrations and the forms and …

Effects of water-table changes following rainfall events on arsenic fate and transport in groundwater–surface water mixing zones

J Park, D Lee, H Kim, NC Woo - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effects of groundwater–surface water (GW–SW) interactions on
the fate and transport of arsenic (As) following rainfall events and subsequent water-table …

115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic

G Stauch, P Schulte, C Schwanen… - Earth Surface …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have considerably influenced accumulation rates and sediment composition in lake
deposits. Due to near‐continuous accumulation, lakes and reservoirs are an excellent …

Analysis of Heavy Metal Pollution in Soil along the Shuimo River by the Grey Relational Method and Factor Analysis

Y Zhang, Y Wang, H Zang, J Yao, H Ma - Metals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soil samples were collected from the upstream, midstream and downstream areas of the
Shuimo River in three layers of 0–20, 20–40 and 40–60 cm, and each group of sample …