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 relationship between comprehensive cultivated soil...

The present work is the first systematic and large scale study on radioactive materials and heavy metals in surface soil around the Bayanwula prospective uranium mining area in China. In this work, both natural and anthropogenic radionuclides and heavy metals in 48 surface soil samples were...

Yixing, known as the "City of Ceramics", is facing a new dilemma: a raw material crisis. Cadmium (Cd) exists in extremely high concentrations in soil due to the considerable input of industrial wastewater into the soil ecosystem. The in situ technique of diffusive gradients in thin film (DGT), the...

In Charleston, SC, the planned expansion of the Port of Charleston may add to the cumulative impact of environmental pollution in communities already overburdened by Superfund sites, brownfields, leaking underground storage tanks, toxic release inventory facilities, a coal-fired plant, an old...

The presence of metals in agricultural soils from anthropogenic activities such as mining and agricultural use of metals and metal-containing compounds is a potential threat for human health through the food chain. In this study, the concentration of heavy metals in 83 agricultural soils irrigated...

Background: Human toxocariasis is contained in the list of neglected diseases. The infection occurs after ingestion of embryonated eggs in contaminated soil. The present study was carried out to estimate the extent of soil contamination with Toxocara spp. eggs in the public places. Methods: Soil...

The estimation of Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) in grasslands is a key factor because it determines the amount of forage that is available to livestock, apart from other aspects. Traditional methods to estimate ANPP include the cut or harvest of plant biomass. The frequency and the...

Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that is toxic to plants. Cd is also known to have negative effect on human health. Cd is absorbed by rice roots and transported to the grains, which results in considerable Cd accumulation when grown on Cd polluted soil. Therefore, an understanding of the Cd...

In order to detect the heavy metal accumulation ability and the effects of environmental factors on the green tree species leaves, six common green tree species were selected for analyzing six heavy metal elements (Pb, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn) concentrations in samples. Three areas were chosen for...

In this work the effect of cadmium on the growth of kale (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata), distribution of cadmium in certain parts of the plants grown in soil with different concentrations of cadmium and their phytoextraction potential, was...