Rapid industrialization, with economic prosperity set as the prime goal, has always created
some secondary intolerable problems such as heavy metal contamination, wastewater that …

Formation of acid mine drainage (AMD) is a widespread environmental issue that has not
subsided throughout decades of continuing research. Highly acidic and highly concentrated …

Abstract Levels of Mercury (Hg), Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Nickel (Ni) &
Thallium (Tl) were established in wastewater & soil samples obtained from 8 sites in open …

The presence of high concentrations of heavy metals (potentially toxic elements) in water
bodies generates serious environmental issues and health problems that led to a dramatic …

Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous inorganic contaminants of both water and soil
environment composition. Normally, heavy metals are non-biodegradable in nature because …

Highlights•Heavy metals uptake and translocation by medicinal plants depends on various
factors.•Heavy metals act as abiotic elicitor in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites.•Status …

Acid mine drainage (AMD) or acid rock drainage (ARD) is considered as one of the main
pollutants of water in many countries that have historic or current mining activities. Its …

The pollution of toxic heavy metals is considered one of the most important environmental
issues which has accelerated dramatically due to changing industrial activities. This review …

Plants absorb a number of elements from soil, some of which have no known biological
function and some are known to be toxic at low concentrations. As plants constitute the …

Classical methods for the detection of heavy metal ions in water are tedious and time
consuming. Thus, there exists a need to develop novel sensing technologies for more …