Persistent pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, musk fragrances, and dyes are frequently detected in different environmental compartments and negatively impact the environment and humans. Understanding the impacts of diffuse environmental pollutants on plants is still limited, especially ...

Sugar molasses is a by-product from sugar industries. The sugar molasses-based fermentation industries mainly refer to the fermentation industries using molasses from sugar mills as raw materials for alcohol or yeast fermentation. A large volume of effluents can be produced in the process of sugar...

Biochar (BC) application to agricultural soil can impact two nitrogen (N) gases pollutants, i.e., the ammonia (NH₃) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) losses to atmospheric environment. Under rice-wheat rotation, applied at which growth cycle may influence the aforementioned effects of BC. We conducted a soil ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) constitute a significant environmental pollution group that reaches toxic levels with anthropogenic activities. The adverse effects of nanoplastics accumulating in ecosystems with the degradation of plastic wastes are also a growing concern. Previous studies ...

Air pollutants adversely affect the physiological, biochemical parameters, and productivity of the crops, but scarce and meager reports are available to know the certain impact of air pollution on crops. The aim of the present study was to assess environmental impact of air pollutants on...

Emissions from the crop residue burning adversely affect the regional and global air quality including public health. In this study, a district-wise comprehensive emission inventory of key pollutants (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, CO, CO₂, SO₂, NOx, N₂O, NH₃, CH₄, NMVOC, EC, OC, PAH) emitted during primary crop...

To study the influence of non-point source pollution on the water environment of Nishan reservoir, China, the pollution characteristics of different land use types (corn field, peanut field, sweet potato field, walnut forest, and village) were analyzed based on the water quality of Nishan reservoir ...

In this paper, we studied the effects of soil pollution with copper on the biomass production, the fractal surface of leaves and the elongation of the roots of white mustard (Sinapis alba) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) plants. The soil used in our experiments was polluted with CuSO₄.5H₂O solutions...

Based on 10 years of environmental monitoring located around the emission zone of an electricity supplier, the main regularities have been studied for the content of heavy metals (HMs), such as Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Cr, and 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the soils of...

Objective: To investigate the heavy metal pollution and health risks in grain crops and vegetables in rare earth mining areas in Northwestern Hubei. Methods: Samples were collected from 6 kinds of food crops and 20 kinds of vegetables that local residents eat and grow locally. The content of...