Tag: heavy metals

A new study of oysters from Vietnam's Quang Ninh coast links metal bioaccumulation to industrial, agricultural and coal mining sources ...

A study of 144 sites in Zhijin County, southwestern China, combines kriging, Geodetector, and explainable machine learning to map soil ...

A systematic review of 195 studies shows that industrial areas carry Iran's worst heavy metal soil contamination, with mercury and ...

Researchers in India have created a one-step iron, iron oxide and carbon nanocomposite that removes up to 88 percent of ...

Researchers in Nigeria used a low-voltage electric field to strip cobalt, lead, zinc, copper and cadmium from contaminated loamy soil ...

A UC Davis study finds that orange rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range, triggered by thawing permafrost, carry metal concentrations about ...

A new Nigerian study shows that polypropylene microplastics and lead contamination interact synergistically to acidify soil, deplete nutrients, and severely ...

A new Correspondence in Environmental Geochemistry and Health identifies numerical inconsistencies and methodological ambiguities in a study of potentially toxic ...

A comprehensive review highlights how algae-based systems, from symbiotic bacterial partnerships to AI-optimized photobioreactors, can sustainably strip nutrients and pollutants ...

A 120-day lab-scale trial shows earthworm-assisted vermicomposting slightly outperformed conventional composting at disintegrating PLA/PBAT bioplastic bags, though neither mesophilic process ...