Tag: potentially toxic elements

A scoping review found 49 mining tailings dam disasters from 2015 to 2025 but population-based health studies for only the ...

Researchers combined a laboratory-derived spectral feature set with a random forest model to boost satellite-based mapping of soil lead contamination ...

Researchers propose combining photovoltaic panels with metal-absorbing plants such as giant reed, vetiver grass, and industrial hemp to remediate contaminated ...

A paired water-sediment study of Chinese coal-mining subsidence lakes shows that optical fingerprints of sediment-derived organic matter better signal how ...

A systematic review of 172 studies reveals how leachate from unlined dumpsites contaminates soil and groundwater, the severe health risks ...

A city-wide soil survey of 45 illegal dumping sites in Jackson, Mississippi, finds that lead, copper and zinc contamination persists ...

A study of Zambian Copperbelt tailings shows soil covers cut copper leaching by orders of magnitude but can increase zinc ...

A depth-resolved survey of a phosphate-mining watershed upstream of Dianchi Lake shows that tailings soils are the dominant contamination hotspot, ...

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

A Nigerian study finds that manure from battery-cage chickens carries far more copper, cadmium and manganese into soils and edible ...