Soil heavy metal pollution has been becoming serious and widespread in China. To date,
there are few studies assessing the nationwide soil heavy metal pollution induced by …

Soil contamination by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has led to adverse environmental
impacts. In this review, we discussed remediation of PTEs contaminated soils through …

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being …

Potentially toxic elements such as heavy metals are ubiquitous in the environment. Risk-
based environmental management relies upon identifying pollution sources, pathways, and …

Heavy metal pollution in peri-urban areas in China is serious and complex. We thus
developed an integrated evaluation method to assess heavy metal pollution and potential …

Heavy metal soil contamination is associated with potential toxicity to humans or ecotoxicity.
Scholars have increasingly used a combination of geographical information science (GIS) …

Nigeria is the most populated black nation in the world with about 199 million people. About
66.3 million Nigerians do not have access to safe drinking water. In this study, research …

China faces a big challenge of environmental deterioration amid its rapid economic
development. To comprehensively identify the contamination characteristics of heavy metals …

This article provides the assessment of heavy metal soil pollution with using the calculation
of various pollution indices and contains also summarization of the sources of heavy metal …

Vegetable fields have a high risk of heavy metal contamination from pollution sources in
suburban and industrial areas of cities. Eighty-seven soil samples, 106 leafy vegetables and …