Tag: soil contamination

A comprehensive soil survey of Bangladesh's Mirsarai Export Processing Zone reveals extreme industrial enrichment of toxic trace elements, with children ...

A new study of fertilized smallholder farms in Kaduna State, Nigeria, finds that maize and cassava carry the highest heavy ...

New laboratory experiments show that the herbicide metazachlor transforms into metabolites that sorb weakly to soil, persist for months and ...

A new study finds significantly elevated heavy metal concentrations in soils and plants from Turkey's earthquake-affected provinces, raising food safety ...

Strontium isotope analysis of urban soils in Salgótarján, Hungary, has allowed scientists to quantify how coal ash from a former ...

A South Indian field study finds that soil type, rather than organic or chemical fertilisation, is the primary driver of ...

A probabilistic risk assessment of arsenic-contaminated allotment gardens in Złoty Stok, Poland, shows that Monte Carlo simulation and bioaccessibility testing ...

A Polish study of home-garden raspberries found that essential metals decline from soil to leaf to fruit, soil–plant correlations vanished ...

Japanese researchers found that applying ordinary sodium chloride rescues quinoa from cesium-induced growth inhibition while boosting the plant's accumulation of ...

A comprehensive geochemical survey of the Welkom Goldfield reveals that abandoned gold mine tailings dams continue to contaminate surrounding soils ...