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Yiwen Jiao, Yitian Liu, Wei Wang, Yujiao Li, Wentong Chang, Ao Zhou and Ronglong Mu
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a major anthropogenic source of heavy metal discharge worldwide. However, little research has been carried out on the development of AMD in abandoned pyrite mines and the heavy metal contamination of mine surface water. The ai...
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Ran Kang, Shanyu Zhou, Tingting Chen, Huiying Yin, Lulu Si, Caiyun Deng and Hermann Kaufmann
Studies have investigated heavy metal (HM) contamination in the Bohai Sea, but primarily in seawater and associated sediments, or in single rivers. For the first time, 31 major rivers discharging into the Bohai Sea were analyzed, along with 27 uniformly ...
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Shuo Gao, Xirui Kang, Yaping Li, Jinpeng Yu, Hui Wang, Hong Pan, Quangang Yang, Zhongchen Yang, Yajie Sun, Yuping Zhuge and Yanhong Lou
Cadmium (Cd) water pollution threatens environmental systems and human health. Adsorption is the preferred method for purifying water bodies polluted by Cd, and the development of effective adsorption materials is critical. The performance of original ph...
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Fuyao Chen, Shaoliang Zhang, Zanxu Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang and Bo Cao
Lead (Pb), as one of the main pollution elements, has resulted in large-scale soil pollution around the world. Even if phytoremediation can solve this problem, the selection of restoration potential plants has always been a scientific problem. As a multi...
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Xiaojie Wang, Qian Zhang, Nan Shan and Hongyan Guo
Heavy metal pollution in agricultural fields is a serious health concern because of the high bioavailability and persistent toxicity of heavy metals. Much progress has recently been made with respect to elucidating the impacts of climate change (e.g., el...
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Ayoub Barkat, Foued Bouaicha, Sabrina Ziad, Tamás Mester, Zsófi Sajtos, Dániel Balla, Islam Makhloufi and György Szabó
In this research, contamination levels and the spatial pattern identification, as well as human and environmental health risk assessments of the heavy metals in the phreatic groundwater aquifer of the Oued Souf Valley were investigated for the first time...
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Nafiaah Naqash, Mamdoh T. Jamal and Rahul Singh
Amidst industrialization and urbanization, wetlands face pollution challenges. We investigated the seasonal distribution of five heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb, and Zn) in the surface water of Harike wetland. The surface water samples were collected from f...
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Zhongyou Yu, Rongwen Yao, Xun Huang and Yuting Yan
Intense anthropogenic activities pose a serious threat to groundwater quality in urban areas. Assessing pollution levels and the health risks of trace elements within urban groundwater is crucial for protecting the groundwater environment. In this study,...
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Guoyao Huang, Xuhui Dong, Hanbiao Xian, Weijian Xu, Hanfei Yang, Yuewei Zhang and Giri Kattel
Coastal lagoons connecting the land and sea provide essential ecosystem services. However, emerging environmental issues such as environmental pollution and ecological degradation from rapid socio-economic development in coastal zones of south China are ...
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Di Li, Longfei Liang, Qidi Dong, Ruijue Wang, Tao Xu, Ling Qu, Zhiwei Wu, Bingyang Lyu, Shiliang Liu and Qibing Chen
The urban water environment is seriously affected by human activities. Rivers in highly industrialized areas, which often carry various types of industrial pollutants, such as metals and nutrients, are especially affected. In this study, the water qualit...
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Huimin Zhou, Tingping Ouyang, Yu Guo, Shasha Peng, Chenjian He and Zhaoyu Zhu
As a primary sink of pollutants, urban soil heavy metal pollution and its influence on urban residents and ecosystems has been becoming one of the most important environmental problems. In the present study, four indices, the Geoaccumulation index (Igeo)...
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Lifei Wei, Ziran Yuan, Yanfei Zhong, Lanfang Yang, Xin Hu and Yangxi Zhang
Hyperspectral remote sensing can be used to effectively identify contaminated elements in soil. However, in the field of monitoring soil heavy metal pollution, hyperspectral remote sensing has the characteristics of high dimensionality and high redundanc...
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Min Zhang, Xiangchun Wang, Long Yang and Yangyang Chu
Heavy metals contaminated sediment has become a worldwide environmental issue due to its great harm to human and aquatic organisms. Thus, economical, effective, and environmentally-friendly remediation technologies are urgently needed. Among which, combi...
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Wenbo Li, Dongyan Wang, Qing Wang, Shuhan Liu, Yuanli Zhu and Wenjun Wu
Under rapid urban sprawl in Northeast China, land conversions are not only encroaching on the quantity of cultivated lands, but also posing a great threat to black soil conservation and food security. This study?s aim is to explore the spatial relationsh...
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Shibao Lu, Jianhua Wang and Liang Pei
Reclaimed water is an important resource for irrigation, and exploration in making full use of it is an important way to alleviate water shortage. This paper analyzes the effects of irrigation with reclaimed water through field trials on the content and ...
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Beibei Yan, Qianqian Wei, Xinfeng Li, Xiaoyu Song, Zongjun Gao, Jiutan Liu, Ruilin Zhang and Min Wang
This study analyzed the sources of total metal elements using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) model and conducted human health risk assessment for adults and children using the health risk assessment model recommended by the United States Environ...
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Emeka Donald Anyanwu,Solomon Nnanna Umeham
Rivers are subjected to various kinds of natural and anthropogenic activities among which, indiscriminate and illegal sand mining is a major factor. The heavy metal content of a Nigerian river was studied between December 2017 and November 2018 in 6 stat...
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Jinying Xu, Yuwei Chen, Lilin Zheng, Baogui Liu, Jinfu Liu and Xiaolong Wang
Heavy metal pollution in sediment is one of the most serious problems in water bodies, including rivers, which can cause secondary pollution when environmental conditions change. In this study, surface sediment samples collected from the four main tribut...
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Xiaoli Zhou, Qin Chen, Chang Liu and Yanming Fang
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Xianfei Huang, Jiwei Hu, Fanxin Qin, Wenxuan Quan, Rensheng Cao, Mingyi Fan and Xianliang Wu
Heavy metal pollution is a serious problem worldwide. In this study, 41 soil samples and 32 cabbage samples were collected from the area surrounding the Jinsha coal-fired power plant (JCFP Plant) in Guizhou Province, southwest China. Pb, Cd, Hg, As, Cu a...
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