The accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils concerns food security. By using the Geographical Detector, this study investigated the influence of six types of factors (eleven factors) on the accumulation of Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn in agricultural soil and products of the North China Plain and...

Cadmium is one of the most serious soil pollutants and negatively affects human health. Due to the rapid industrial development, cadmium pollution of agricultural soils in China has received much attention. In this study, we applied a meta-analysis method to assess the current cadmium distribution...

Understanding the factors that controlling the agricultural soil heavy metals/metalloids distribution is vital for cropland soil remediation and management. For this objective, 227 agricultural soils were sampled in the Guanzhong Plain, China, to measure the concentration of five heavy metals (Pb,...

Misuse and overuse of antibiotics have contributed to the rise of antimicrobial resistance as one of the top public health threats. Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are prevalent in agricultural soils due to the widespread application of livestock and organic wastes. However,...

The current study assesses and predicts cadmium (Cd) concentration in agricultural soil using two Cd datasets, namely legacy data (LD) and preferential sampling-legacy data (PS-LD), along with four streams of auxiliary datasets extracted from Sentinel-2 (S2) and Landsat-8 (L8) bands. The study was...

The widespread distribution of phthalates (PAEs) in agricultural soils is increasing drastically; however, the environmental occurrence and potential risk of PAEs in agricultural systems remain largely unreviewed. In this study, the occurrence, sources, ecotoxicity, exposure risks, and control...

Ultraviolet absorbers (UVAs) are emerging pollutants of concern owing to their environmental persistence and endocrine-disrupting effects. UVAs are added to agricultural films to prevent UV-induced degradation, potentially leading to the release of UVAs into the soil. In this study, the occurrence...

Intensive human activities caused massive socio-economic and land-use changes that directly or indirectly resulted in excessive accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils. The goal of our study was to explore the spatial determinants of heavy metals pollution for agricultural soil...

Agricultural nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions account for 60% of the total N₂O emissions. For sustainable agriculture, it is essential to reduce the emissions of N₂O from agricultural soils. Since decades, agricultural soils are a substantial N₂O source; however, there are emerging studies that also...

Microplastics have been a global environmental concern owing to their widespread pollution, which may pose risks to food security and human health once entering into agricultural soils. In this review article, major sources of microplastics entering agricultural soils were summarized with the...