A case study of spatial variation and enrichment of selected elements in ambient particulate matter around a large coal-fired power station in central India.

abstract：:Lead poisoning produces serious health problems, which are worse when a victim is younger. The US government and society have tried to prevent lead poisoning, especially since the 1970s; however, lead exposure remains prevalent. Lead poisoning analyses frequently use georeferenced blood lead level data. Like other typ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lee M,Chun Y,Griffith DA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to investigate the impacts of coal mining-contaminated soil on the locally grown food crops and humans health. For the active investigation and assessment, the study collected 175 samples including contaminated and control soil and various types of food crops (corn, wheat, mixed food (egg, pork meat, p...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Hussain R,Luo K,Liang H,Hong X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination and risk by nutrients (NH4+, NO2-, NO3- and PO43-), COD, BOD5, coliform and potentially toxic elements (PTEs) of As, Cd, Ni, Hg, Cu, Pb, Zn and Cr were investigated in urban river (Nhue River), Vietnam during 2010-2017. The extensive results demonstrated that concentrations of these contaminants show...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Nguyen KT,Nguyen HM,Truong CK,Ahmed MB,Huang Y,Zhou JL

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the processes of stone formation, compositional, spectroscopic, mineralogical and crystallographic characteristics of human urinary stones collected from patients in Sri Lanka were investigated in detail. The data showed that the majority of urinary calculi were calcium oxalate, either whewellit...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Chandrajith R,Weerasingha A,Premaratne KM,Gamage D,Abeygunasekera AM,Joachimski MM,Senaratne A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations living in the Southwest United States are more likely to be exposed to elevated drinking water arsenic levels compared to other areas of the country. Skin changes, including hyperpigmentation and generalized hyperkeratosis, are the most common signs of chronic arsenic ingestion from drinking water. The pur...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Tollestrup K,Frost FJ,Cristiani M,McMillan GP,Calderon RL,Padilla RS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfortunately, in the original publication of the article, Prof. Yang Sik Ok's affiliation was incorrectly published. The author's affiliation is as follows. ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Al-Wabel MI,Usman ARA,Al-Farraj AS,Ok YS,Abduljabbar A,Al-Faraj AI,Sallam AS

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium (Se) is an important micronutrient and essential trace element for both humans and animals, which exist in the environment ubiquitously. Selenium deficiency is an important issue worldwide, with various reported cases of its deficiency. Low selenium contents in some specific terrestrial environments have resu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ullah H,Liu G,Yousaf B,Ali MU,Irshad S,Abbas Q,Ahmad R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With respect to water crisis, using urban wastewater to irrigate urban green spaces is an upcoming strategy. The pollution of lands irrigated with wastewater is one of the upcoming challenges. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate contamination indices of soils irrigated with wastewater. In this stu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Parvanak K,Khamisabadi A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known and proven that heavy metal contamination of the soils can severely affect the health of the people living in the contaminated areas given the ease with which trace elements can enter the human body. In addition-to agricultural crop depreciation as well as soil erosion, soil pollution can negatively a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Popa DM,Moldovan M,Prodan D,Aldea C,Lazăr C,Lazea C,Crişan M,Sur LM,Man SC,Borzan C

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Water quality improvement is the most efficient way to prevent arsenic exposure. After the cessation of arsenic ingestion, arsenic methylation capacity of the exposed population can change significantly. The factors associated with these changes remain poorly understood. Therefore, arsenic methylation capacity in a st...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kong C,Yang L,Yu J,Li H,Wei B,Guo Z,Xia Y,Wu K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To fully understand the environmental quality of sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, surface sediments of the main stream of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and its five major tributaries were studied. In 2016, a total of 201 water samples from the Yarlung Tsangpo River and its tributaries were collected during th...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Li Z,Liu J,Chen H,Li Q,Yu C,Huang X,Guo H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dechlorane Plus (DP) is a high-production volume, chlorinated flame retardant comprising two major isomers, syn- and anti-DP. In this study, levels of DP were measured in soil and earthworm samples in farmland from a typical E-waste dismantling area in China. The concentrations of total DP ranged from 0.17 to 1,990 ng...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xiao K,Wang P,Zhang H,Shang H,Li Y,Li X,Ren D,Chen W,Zhang Q

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, the problem of the constantly increasin level of anthropogenic load on the environment is becoming more and more acute. Some of the most dangerous pollutants entering the environment from industrial emissions are heavy metals. These pollutants are not susceptible to biodegradation over time, which l...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Chaplygin V,Mandzhieva S,Minkina T,Sushkova S,Kizilkaya R,Gülser C,Zamulina I,Kravtsova N,Lobzenko I,Chernikova N

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated water supply geochemistry in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, to provide detailed trace level (subppb) water quality data that include major ions, low dissolved oxygen (DO) and toxic trace metals for sustainable development. Dhaka Groundwater, which almost uniformly meets the World Health Organizati...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Nahar MS,Zhang J,Ueda A,Yoshihisa F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results from a study of the organic composition of rainwater collected at Tianhe district of Guangzhou city, P.R. China, during the dry season. Several special setups of a pyrex bottle with a glass funnel were used for the collection of the rainwater. Three fractions (aliphatics, PAHs and fatty ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xu T,Song Z,Liu J,Wang C,Wei J,Chen H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Causes of Keshan-Beck disease (KBD) are still being probed and monitored in China. Relationships between trace elements from eco-environmental systems and KBD are poorly understood although relationships between environmental Se and human health have received extensive attention. In order to investigate relationships ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fang W,Wu P,Hu R,Huang Z

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study deals with the analyses of springs and wells at the base of Montepugliano Hill that represents the SE edge of the wide carbonate Matese massif (Campania, southern Italy). At the base of the hill, from west to east and for almost one kilometre, cold springs HCO3-Ca type (Grassano springs, ~ 4.5 m3/s; TDS: abo...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Corniello A,Guida M,Stellato L,Trifuoggi M,Carraturo F,Del Gaudio E,Del Giudice C,Forte G,Giarra A,Iorio M,Marzaioli F,Toscanesi M

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Diesel engine railway traffic causes atmosphere pollution due to the exhaust emission which may be harmful to the passengers as well as workers. In this study, the air quality and PM10 concentrations were evaluated around a railway station in Northeast India where trains are operated with diesel engines. The gaseous p...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Islam N,Rabha S,Silva LFO,Saikia BK

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because household dust is a heterogeneous assortment of particles derived from a multitude of diverse sources, concentrations of toxicants, like trace metals, vary widely among sample populations. For risk assessment purposes, the bioaccessibility of a trace metal, or its degree of solubilization in the human lung or ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Turner A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary calculi have been recognized as one of the most painful medical disorders. Tenable knowledge of the phase composition of the stones is very important to elucidate an underlying etiology of the stone disease. We report here the results of quantitative X-ray diffraction phase analysis performed on 278 kidney sto...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Uvarov V,Popov I,Shapur N,Abdin T,Gofrit ON,Pode D,Duvdevani M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subject of the study was the ecological and human health consequences of environmental pollution from emissions arising from burning local coal with an arsenic content ranging from 900 to 1,500 g/tonne of dry substance. The first indication of environmental pollution by arsenic-containing emissions was the mass ex...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Bencko V,Rames J,Fabiánová E,Pesek J,Jakubis M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jinci Spring is one of the most famous karst spring in Northern China and is the main drinking and irrigation water source of Taiyuan city, Shanxi Province. It has special significance in terms of humanities and water resources. Because of the continuous over-exploitation of groundwater, the water level of groundwater...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lv C,Ling M,Wu Z,Gu P,Guo X,Di D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of the present study is evaluation of groundwater aptness for crops and chromium concentration in vegetables from an industrial (leather tanning) sector of South India using geospatial techniques. Seventy groundwater samples were collected from the open and tube wells during November 2017, February ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Venkatesan G,Subramani T,Sathya U,Karunanidhi D

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater pollution in tropical and human-altered coastal landscapes is receiving novel attention due to decreasing in annual recharge as a consequence of recurrent droughts and overexploitation, whereby saline intrusion, point and diffuse source contamination, and water conflicts are common denominators. This study...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sánchez-Gutiérrez R,Mena-Rivera L,Sánchez-Murillo R,Fonseca-Sánchez A,Madrigal-Solís H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coal-fired power stations are significant sources of soil contamination with heavy metals and a source of hazard to human health. The soil samples (n = 25) selected in the area around Novocherkassk Power Station (Rostov Region, Russia) within a radius of up to 20 km revealed the enrichment with Pb, Cu and Zn. The heav...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Linnik VG,Minkina TM,Bauer TV,Saveliev AA,Mandzhieva SS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total content of trace elements was examined in some arable soils developed from boulder loam and silt formations of the Middle Poland and Baltic glaciations (62 profiles). Mean element concentrations calculated on the basis of chemical and statistical analyses were as follows: Mn = 322; Zn = 36; Cr = 30; Ni = 12....

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Czarnowska K,Gworek B

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bedrock groundwaters in Geumsan County, Korea, were surveyed to investigate the distribution and geochemical behaviors of arsenic and fluoride, mobilized through geogenic processes. The concentrations were enriched up to 113 μg/L for arsenic and 7.54 mg/L for fluoride, and 16% of 150 samples exceeded World Health Orga...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ahn JS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study concentrations of selected metals viz., Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Na, Ni, Pb and Zn in surface soils of Sialkot city known worldwide for tanneries and pharmaceutical industries were measured to assess the status of urban soil pollution and to identify sources of contamination. Hierarchical cluster a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Malik RN,Jadoon WA,Husain SZ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates indoor air concentrations of CO2, NO2, and O3 and their relationship to other indoor environmental factors in facilities with occupants susceptible to air contaminants, such as hospitals, senior specialized hospitals, elderly care facilities, and postnatal care centers. Indoor air samples were col...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Hwang SH,Park WM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy), long-lasting mining activities have favored the mobilization of numerous metals present in sulfosalts originated from low-grade metamorphism mineralization. Such materials, rich in potentially toxic elements such as antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, lead, thallium, tin and zinc, re...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Vittori Antisari L,Bini C,Ferronato C,Gherardi M,Vianello G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00