Molecular insights and impacts of wildfire-induced soil chemical changes

AM Lopez, CCE Avila, JP VanderRoest… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Wildfires act as important ecosystem controls and can benefit fire-adapted biomes by
promoting habitat heterogeneity, seed germination and disease control. However, the …

Fire-induced geochemical changes in soil: Implication for the element cycling

A Roshan, A Biswas - Science of The Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Soils play an essential role in supporting and sustaining life on this planet. In fire-impacted
environments, fire causes considerable changes to the soil, especially in the various …

Quantification of Bioaccessible and Environmentally Relevant Trace Metals in Structure Ash from a Wildland–Urban Interface Fire

CM Villarruel, LA Figueroa… - Environmental Science & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Wildfires at the wildland–urban interface (WUI) are increasing in frequency and intensity,
driven by climate change and anthropogenic ignitions. Few studies have characterized the …

[HTML][HTML] Chromium adsorption on thermally activated adsorbent equipped from waste biomass

MA Hashem, J Nayeen, MT Hossain… - Waste Management …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The emitted wastewater from the tanning industry is extremely catastrophic and that contains
a large extent of toxicants including heavy metals, especially chromium (Cr). Its detrimental …

Evidence of hexavalent chromium formation and changes of Cr speciation after laboratory-simulated fires of composted tannery sludges long-term amended …

I Rascio, I Allegretta, CE Gattullo, C Porfido… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Controlled or accidental fires can impact agricultural soils amended with composted organic
materials since high temperatures cause fast organic matter (OM) mineralization and soil …

Wildfires on Cr-rich Ferralsols can cause freshwater Cr (VI) pollution: A pilot study in New Caledonia

G Thery, F Juillot, M Meyer, T Quiniou, M David… - Applied …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In the context of global warming, environmental forcing of wildfires on continental
ecosystems is on a growing trend. Among other environmental impacts, wildfires can …

Comparative evaluation of tannin from banana bunch and stem syrup for leather processing

KT Tasnim, A Debnath, MT Uddin, MA Alam… - Heliyon, 2024‏ - cell.com
Utilization of vegetable tannins in leather processing is one of the convenient solutions to
protect the environment pollution. Herein, the banana bunch and syrup of banana stem are …

Efficient removal of mercury and chromium from wastewater via biochar fabricated with steel slag: Performance and mechanisms

H Wang, R Duan, X Zhou, J Wang, Y Liu… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Biochar derived from biomass is regarded as a promising adsorbent for wastewater
treatment, but the high cost of modification is still a challenge for its large-scale practical …

Simulated temperatures of forest fires affect water solubility in soil and litter

K Miotliński, K Tshering, MC Boyce, D Blake… - Ecological …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As wildfires are of increasing concern in a warming world, there is a need to understand how
fire temperatures affect solute concentrations of forest litter and soils in drinking water …

Oxidation reaction behavior of Cr-hosting spinels during heating of solid wastes containing Cr

X Liu, H Jiang, J Wang, W Zhang, L Hu, M Peng… - Science of the Total …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Cr-hosting spinels are frequently formed during heating of solid wastes containing multiple
metals, and its oxidation reaction (Cr (III)→ Cr (VI)) is closely related with the toxicity of …