Tag: soil contamination

Field trials show that foliar sprays combining silicon, selenium, chitosan, fulvate, boron, and zinc boost maize yields while cutting grain ...

Indian researchers used protoplast fusion to create hybrid fungal strains that cut arsenic in spinach by over 70 percent while ...

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

A new study of farms irrigated with industrial wastewater along Nigeria's River Tatsawarki finds cadmium and chromium in soils and ...

Australian researchers found that blending oil-contaminated soils to an intermediate loamy texture, combined with Italian ryegrass and microbial inoculants, boosted ...

The first assessment of soil at Lesotho's Maputsoe dumpsite reveals lead and cadmium contamination severe enough to demand urgent remediation, ...

A comprehensive survey of 274 soil and sediment samples from Jebba, Nigeria, reveals that stream sediments accumulate hazardous levels of ...

A new study in Constantine, Algeria, shows that the common ash tree accumulates traffic-related trace metals in its bark and ...

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

Researchers at IIT Roorkee have developed a depth-specific source-pathway-receptor framework that quantifies heavy metal ecological risk separately for shallow- and ...