[HTML][HTML] Soil degradation in India: Challenges and potential solutions

R Bhattacharyya, BN Ghosh, PK Mishra, B Mandal… - Sustainability, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
Soil degradation in India is estimated to be occurring on 147 million hectares (Mha) of land,
including 94 Mha from water erosion, 16 Mha from acidification, 14 Mha from flooding, 9 …

Future perspectives and mitigation strategies towards groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal, India

S Koley - Environmental Quality Management, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Arsenic is a toxic carcinogen mostly found in subsurface environments. It is released into
groundwater mostly via natural geological and hydrological processes. Consumption of …

Arsenic in foodchain and community health risk: a study in Gangetic West Bengal

SC Santra, AC Samal, P Bhattacharya… - Procedia Environmental …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Arsenic, a potent carcinogen, can cause malignant arsenical skin lesions may be Bowen's
disease, basal cell carcinoma, or squamous cell carcinoma. Apart from carcinoma and …

Monitor soil degradation or triage for soil security? An Australian challenge

A Koch, A Chappell, M Eyres, E Scott - Sustainability, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
The Australian National Soil Research, Development and Extension Strategy identifies soil
security as a foundation for the current and future productivity and profitability of Australian …

An attempt to electrically enhance phytoremediation of arsenic contaminated water

JJ Kubiak, PJ Khankhane, PJ Kleingeld, AT Lima - Chemosphere, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Water polluted with arsenic presents a challenge for remediation. A combination of phyto-
and electro-remediation was attempted in this study. Four tanks were setup in order to …

Ground water arsenic contamination in West Bengal, India: A risk of sub-clinical toxicity in cattle as evident by correlation between arsenic exposure, excretion and …

AK Bera, T Rana, S Das… - Toxicology and …, 2010‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Arsenic contamination of ground water in West Bengal, India, is a great concern for both
human and livestock populations. Our study investigated and correlated the arsenic …

[PDF][PDF] Contamination of raw fresh milk, market pasteurized milk and powdered milk by toxic heavy metals in Bangladesh

M Ahmad, SPK Roy, N Sarwar, S Morshed, MK Alam… - Sci Res J, 2016‏ - scirj.org
Milk is called the balanced nutrient food in the human diet. Micronutrients and
macronutrients were found abundantly in milk, but contamination of heavy metals can occur …

[PDF][PDF] Preliminary findings on the levels of five heavy metals in water, sediments, grass and various specimens from cattle grazing and watering in potentially heavy …

BM Dzoma, RA Moralo, LE Motsei, RV Ndou… - J. Anim. Vet …, 2010‏ - researchgate.net
A study was carried out to determine the levels of 5 heavy metal pollutants in water,
sediments and grass from the gold mining area of Koekemoerspruit near Orkney in the North …

Study of the suitability of selected extractants for determination of plant-available arsenic in some inceptisols of West Bengal, India

PK Giri, K Bhattacharyya, B Sinha… - Communications in Soil …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
A study was conducted to assess the suitability of extractants for soil-available arsenic (As)
under kharif rice (MTU-7029). Ten soil samples were collected from different locations of …

[PDF][PDF] Arsenic concentration in water, rice straw and cow milk–a micro level study at Chakdaha and Haringhata block of West Bengal

P Sarkar, PR Ray, PK Ghatak, M Sen - Indian J Dairy Sci, 2016‏ - epubs.icar.org.in
Arsenic poisoning of water is severe in West Bengal and eight of the twenty districts have
reported to have arsenic contamination in ground water above the recommended level of …