PGPR-Enabled bioremediation of pesticide and heavy metal-contaminated soil: A review of recent advances and emerging challenges

I Sharma, S Sharma, V Sharma, AK Singh, A Sharma… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The excessive usage of agrochemicals, including pesticides, along with various reckless
human actions, has ensued discriminating prevalence of pesticides and heavy metals (HMs) …

The state of the world's arable land

L Olsson, F Cotrufo, T Crews, J Franklin… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For millennia, agriculture has been sha** landscapes on Earth. Technological change
has increased agricultural productivity dramatically, especially in the past six decades, but …

Agricultural pesticide land budget and river discharge to oceans

F Maggi, FHM Tang, FN Tubiello - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Pesticides are ubiquitous environmental pollutants negatively affecting ecosystem and
human health,. About 3 Tg of pesticides are used annually in agriculture to protect crops …

A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe

R Prăvălie, P Borrelli, P Panagos, C Ballabio… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Land degradation is a complex socio-environmental threat, which generally occurs as
multiple concurrent pathways that remain largely unexplored in Europe. Here we present an …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing pesticides in the atmosphere: A global study on pollution, human health effects, monitoring network and regulatory performance

Y Huang, Z Li - Environment International, 2024 - Elsevier
Pesticides are widely used in agriculture, but their impact on the environment and human
health is a major concern. While much attention has been given to their presence in soil …

[HTML][HTML] Pesticide residues with hazard classifications relevant to non-target species including humans are omnipresent in the environment and farmer residences

V Silva, L Gai, P Harkes, G Tan, CJ Ritsema… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Intensive and widespread use of pesticides raises serious environmental and human health
concerns. The presence and levels of 209 pesticide residues (active substances and …

National-scale monitoring of historic used organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and current used pesticides (CUPs) in Chinese surface soil: Old topic and new story

L Wang, ZF Zhang, LY Liu, FJ Zhu, WL Ma - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Along with the restriction and prohibition of historic used organochlorine pesticides (OCPs),
current used pesticides (CUPs) were widely used as alternatives. In order to investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Current use pesticides in soil and air from two agricultural sites in South Africa: Implications for environmental fate and human exposure

C Degrendele, J Klánová, R Prokeš, P Příbylová… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Concerns about the possible negative impacts of current use pesticides (CUPs) for both the
environment and human health have increased worldwide. However, the knowledge on the …

[HTML][HTML] Pesticide bioaccumulation in radish produced from soil contaminated with microplastics

H Ju, X Yang, D Tang, R Osman, V Geissen - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The aging of microplastics (MPs) in soils may affect crop bioaccumulation of coexisting
contaminants. We examined the bioaccumulation of pesticides (chlorpyrifos (CPF) …

Analysis of nationwide soil pesticide pollution: Insights from China

Y Huang, X Zhang, Z Li - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
China is a typical agricultural country that heavily relies on pesticides. Some pesticides can
remain in the soil after application and thus pose a significant threat to human health. In …