Pollution assessment of heavy metals in soils of India and ecological risk assessment: A state-of-the-art

V Kumar, A Sharma, P Kaur, GPS Sidhu, AS Bali… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil is substantive component of biosphere, which is exposed to plethora of pollutants
including heavy metals. These are added by natural as well as anthropogenic activities …

Performance of bioremediation strategy in waste lubricating oil pollutants: a review

J Kanungo, T Sahoo, M Bal, ID Behera - Geomicrobiology Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid growth of industrialization commences the utilization of lubrication oil in various
machinery and automobile sectors. Waste Lubricating Oil (WLO) is the used oil which is …

[HTML][HTML] Potential health risks of lead exposure from early life through later life: implications for public health education

AC Olufemi, A Mji, MS Mukhola - International journal of environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lead (Pb) exposure has been a serious environmental and public health problem
throughout the world over the years. The major sources of lead in the past were paint and …

Potential bioavailability assessment, source apportionment and ecological risk of heavy metals in the sediment of Brisbane River estuary, Australia

GO Duodu, A Goonetilleke, GA Ayoko - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2017 - Elsevier
A weak acid extraction was used to mobilize the loosely bound metals in estuary sediment
samples. More than 30% of Ag, As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Hg, Mn Ni, Pb and Zn were leached from …

Lead in urban soils: a real or perceived concern for urban agriculture?

SL Brown, RL Chaney… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Urban agriculture is growing in cities across the United States. It has the potential to provide
multiple benefits, including increased food security. Concerns about soil contamination in …

Assessment of physiochemical properties and concentration of heavy metals in agricultural soils fertilized with chemical fertilizers

MA Salem, DK Bedade, L Al-Ethawi, SM Al-Waleed - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
The present study aim to assess the effect of phosphate and urea fertilizers on the
physicochemical properties, pH and electrical conductivity (EC) of the soil. The effect of …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution patterns and sources of heavy metals in soils from an industry undeveloped city in Southern China

X Bi, M Zhang, Y Wu, Z Fu, G Sun, L Shang, Z Li… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The accumulations of heavy metals in urban soils are derived from natural parent materials
and complex anthropogenic emission sources. This paper investigated metal contamination …

Children's blood lead seasonality in flint, Michigan (USA), and soil-sourced lead hazard risks

MAS Laidlaw, GM Filippelli, RC Sadler… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
In Flint; MI; USA; a public health crisis resulted from the switching of the water supply from
Lake Huron to a more corrosive source from the Flint River in April 2014; which caused lead …

Metal contamination in campus dust of **'an, China: A study based on multivariate statistics and spatial distribution

H Chen, X Lu, LY Li, T Gao, Y Chang - Science of the Total Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The concentrations of As, Ba, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, V and Zn in campus dust from
kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools and universities of **'an, China were …

Lead speciation, bioaccessibility, and sources for a contaminated subset of house dust and soils collected from similar United States residences

TD Sowers, MD Blackmon, RT Wilkin… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Residential lead (Pb) exposure is of critical concern to families globally as Pb promotes
severe neurological effects in children, especially those less than 5 years old, and no blood …