Use of Maize (Zea mays L.) for phytomanagement of Cd-contaminated soils: a critical review.

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：:The aim of this study was to investigate the sources of drinking water for Derebogazi Village, Kahramanmaras Province, Turkey, in terms of hydrogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, and medical geology. Water samples were obtained from seven different water sources in the area, all of which are located within quartzite ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Uras Y,Uysal Y,Arikan TA,Kop A,Caliskan M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of information concerning human health risks due to exposure to mercury contained in shark fins, through dietary intake. Health risk assessment of shark fins, collected from 5 cities in China: Hong Kong (HK), Beijing, Shanghai (SH), Haikou (HN) and Wenzhou (WZ), was conducted, based on total mercury an...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Man YB,Wu SC,Wong MH

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：: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：:Yucca Mountain is being considered as a geological repository for the USA's spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste. Numerous groundwater seeps appeared during March 2005 within the exploratory studies facility (ESF), a tunnel excavated in the mountain. Because of the relevance to radionuclide transport and un...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Cizdziel JV,Guo C,Steinberg SM,Yu Z,Johannesson KH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is imperative to comprehend the level and spatial distribution of soil pollution with heavy metals to find sustainable management approaches for affected soils. Selected heavy metals (Mn, Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, Ni, As, Co, and Cd) and physiochemical parameters were appraised for 620 samples from industrial, agricultural a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Keshavarzi A,Kumar V,Ertunç G,Brevik EC

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) increased gradually because of the rise in global food demand that triggered the agriculture sector to increase the production, leading to OPP residues in the surface water. This study elucidated the presence of OPPs and estimated its ecological risk in the riverin...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zainuddin AH,Wee SY,Aris AZ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red mud (RM) was used to remediate heavy metal-contaminated soils. Experiments with two different dosages of RM added to soils were carried out in this study. It was found that soil pH increased 0.3 and 0.5 unit with the dosage of 3 and 5% (wt%), respectively. At the dosage of 5%, the highest stabilization efficiencie...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Wang Y,Li F,Song J,Xiao R,Luo L,Yang Z,Chai L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyto- and bioremediation are perspective methods for soil recultivation. In spite of resistance of plant-hyperaccumulators and degrading microorganisms to some contaminants, there are soil toxicity limits for their growth and activity. Therefore, simple and express methods are needed to estimate the soil phytotoxicit...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Vasilyeva GK,Kondrashina VS,Strijakova ER,Pinsky DL

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior surveys conducted have found higher proportion of arsenic-contaminated wells in villages along river Indus in Pakistan. This study aims to determine the prevalence of arsenicosis skin lesions among population exposed to higher exposure in taluka Gambat district Khairpur in Sindh. The cross-sectional survey was c...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fatmi Z,Abbasi IN,Ahmed M,Kazi A,Kayama F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt is made to synthesize the epidemiological literature and identify salient factors from the multitude of potential antecedents of gastric cancer, factors which to a greater or lesser degree create nonrandom variations in the distribution of the disease. Implicit in this approach is the notion that observatio...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Matthews SA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant use of coal in power sectors has been associated with adverse environmental impacts. Ambient air monitoring for the two size fractions of particulate matter, respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) and non-respirable suspended particulate matter (NRSPM) in the downwind and upwind directions of a la...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sharma R,Pervez S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seafood farmed in arsenic (As)-contaminated areas is a major exposure pathway for the ingestion of inorganic As by individuals in the southwestern part of Taiwan. This study presents a probabilistic risk assessment using limited data for inorganic As intake through the consumption of the seafood by local residents in ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Liang CP,Jang CS,Chen JS,Wang SW,Lee JJ,Liu CW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical mining in Alaska has created a legacy of approximately 6,830 abandoned mine sites which include adits, tailing piles and contaminated land that continue to impact surface and groundwater quality through run-off and leaching of potentially toxic metals, especially arsenic (As). One such site is the Lucky Sho...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Torrance K,Keenan H,Munk L,Hagedorn B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lacustrine groundwater discharge (LGD) can play an important role in water and contaminant mass balance of lakes. Dongting Lake is the second largest fresh lake in China which is connected to Yangtze River and has quite prominent ecological status and function within Yangtze River basin. However, the effect of groundw...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sun X,Du Y,Deng Y,Fan H,Tao Y,Ma T

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving China's agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emission efficiency has become an important way to cope with climate change in an ecologically-and ethically responsible manner. In this paper, we use a global slacks-based inefficiency model to evaluate the agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emission efficiency l...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Qin Q,Yan H,Liu J,Chen X,Ye B

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mining and municipal wastewaters in the study area are located around Elazig, Turkey. This study investigated the translocation and accumulation of Sr into 9 terrestrial-aquatic plants from the Elazig municipal wastewater, Keban Pb-Zn and Maden Cu wastewaters. Plants and their soil samples were collected from the ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sasmaz M,Uslu Senel G,Obek E

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In peri-urban areas of district Vehari, farmers are using untreated city wastewater for crop irrigation owing to the scarcity of good-quality irrigation water. This practice may pose severe environmental and health issues to local inhabitants attributed to the high levels of potentially toxic metals in wastewater. The...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sarwar T,Shahid M,Natasha,Khalid S,Shah AH,Ahmad N,Naeem MA,Ul Haq Z,Murtaza B,Bakhat HF

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing public awareness of the relatively new and expanded industrial barium uses which are potential sources of human exposure (e.g., a shale gas development that causes an increased awareness of environmental exposures to barium). However, absorption of barium in exposed humans and a full spectrum of...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kravchenko J,Darrah TH,Miller RK,Lyerly HK,Vengosh A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution culture, paddy soil culture and the simulation experiments in the laboratory were conducted to clarify the interactions between selenium and phosphorus, and its effects on the growth and selenium accumulation in rice. Results revealed that a suitable supply of selenium could promote rice growth and excess...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Liu Q,Wang DJ,Jiang XJ,Cao ZH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic-containing water poses a serious threat to human health. In this study, two types of Fe-modified rice straw biochars [(Fe-impregnated biochar (FeIm char) and pre-modified rice straw biochar (PMRS char)] were prepared, in which three ratios [1, 5, and 10% (w/w)] of Fe modification were evaluated, resulting in s...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zhang Y,Fan J,Fu M,Ok YS,Hou Y,Cai C

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:This paper discusses the geochemistry and mineralogy of the barkinite liptobiolith of the Late Permian age from the Jinshan Mine, Guangde County, Anhui Province, China. Samples were examined using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry, ion-selective...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sun Y,Lin M,Qin P,Zhao C,Jin K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often claimed that coastal marine and freshwater lake sediments preserve temporal records of anthropogenic input of heavy metals to the environment since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Growing evidence of perturbatory factors such as physical and biological mixing, other redistributional processes and t...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Farmer JG

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of the present study was to examine the quality of the groundwater and decipher the sources of groundwater fluoride through mass balance modeling based on fluoride exposure in a geologically heterogeneous semi-arid region of southern India. This was achieved by hydrogeochemical analysis, graphical methods...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Karunanidhi D,Aravinthasamy P,Deepali M,Subramani T,Sunkari ED

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is present in airborne particulate material released by coal-fired power plants and non-ferrous metal smelters. We have assessed whether the physico-chemical properties of arsenic in such particles play a role in its lung retention and uptake by the body. Female hamsters were given a single intratracheal insti...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Buchet JP,Lauwerys RR,Yager JW

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a general model for the biokinetics of Rn-222 in the adult human body following ingestion of the radon in water. Such a model is needed for the calculation of doses which would result from the ingestion of radon, a natural component of drinking water supplies. Information on the movement and concen...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Crawford-Brown DJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a unique data set of lead, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in soil samples collected from the metropolitan New York City area in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Initial samples were collected by citizen scientists recruited via soc...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Mandigo AC,DiScenza DJ,Keimowitz AR,Fitzgerald N

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work a two-stage process combining soil electrokinetic remediation and liquid electrochemical oxidation for the remediation of polluted soil with organic compounds has been developed and evaluated using phenanthrene-spiked kaolinite. Application of an unenhanced electrokinetic process resulted in negligible re...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Alcántara T,Pazos M,Cameselle C,Sanromán MA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00