Nickel is a transition element extensively distributed in the environment, air, water, and soil.
It may derive from natural sources and anthropogenic activity. Although nickel is ubiquitous …

Reducing or preventing damage caused by environmental pollution is a significant goal
nowadays. Phytoextraction, as remediation technique is widely used, but during the process …

Globally, ultramafic outcrops are renowned for hosting floras with high levels of endemism,
including plants with specialised adaptations such as nickel or manganese …

The genus Viola (Violaceae) is among the 40–50 largest genera among angiosperms, yet its
taxonomy has not been revised for nearly a century. In the most recent revision, by Wilhelm …

Textile industries are one of the largest generator of wastewater as large amount of water is
used in coloring and finishing processes. The effluents released from textile industries …

Using automated additive construction (AAC), low-fidelity large-scale compressive structures
can be produced out of a wide variety of materials found in the environment. Compression …

Plants have developed a diversity of strategies to take up and store essential metals in order
to colonize various types of soils including mineralized soils. Yet, our knowledge of the …

Research on metal hyperaccumulating plants has concentrated on New Caledonia, Brazil,
Cuba, the Mediterranean basin, and southeastern Asia, while other regions remain under …

Many Viola plants growing in mining areas exhibit high levels of cadmium (Cd) tolerance
and accumulation, and thus are ideal organisms for comparative studies on molecular …

The exponential growth of low-grade mining ores and metal-polluted soils around the world
during the last decades is expected to continue at a higher rate in the foreseeable future …