Biochar application for greenhouse gas mitigation, contaminants immobilization and soil fertility enhancement: A state-of-the-art review

K Abhishek, A Shrivastava, V Vimal, AK Gupta… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rising global temperature, pollution load, and energy crises are serious problems, recently
facing the world. Scientists around the world are ambitious to find eco-friendly and cost …

Lead toxicity: health hazards, influence on food chain, and sustainable remediation approaches

A Kumar, A Kumar, CP MMS, AK Chaturvedi… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lead (Pb) toxicity has been a subject of interest for environmental scientists due to its toxic
effect on plants, animals, and humans. An increase in several Pb related industrial activities …

Phytoremediation: a sustainable environmental technology for heavy metals decontamination

B Nedjimi - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Toxic metal contamination of soil is a major environmental hazard. Chemical methods for
heavy metal's (HMs) decontamination such as heat treatment, electroremediation, soil …

Remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils by biochar: Mechanisms, potential risks and applications in China

L He, H Zhong, G Liu, Z Dai, PC Brookes, J Xu - Environmental pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
There are global concerns about heavy metal (HM) contamination in soils, which in turn has
produced an increased demand for soil remediation. Biochar has been widely documented …

Biochar-facilitated soil remediation: mechanisms and efficacy variations

M Guo, W Song, J Tian - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent research suggests that biochar amendment is a promising approach to mitigate soil
contamination via immobilizing heavy metals and organic pollutants. Through intensive …

An overview of field-scale studies on remediation of soil contaminated with heavy metals and metalloids: Technical progress over the last decade

Y Gong, D Zhao, Q Wang - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil contamination by heavy metals and metalloids has been a major concern to human
health and environmental quality. While many remediation technologies have been tested at …

A comparison of technologies for remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils

S Khalid, M Shahid, NK Niazi, B Murtaza, I Bibi… - Journal of geochemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil contamination with persistent and potentially (eco) toxic heavy metal (loid) s is
ubiquitous around the globe. Concentration of these heavy metal (loid) s in soil has …

Biochar application for the remediation of heavy metal polluted land: a review of in situ field trials

D O'Connor, T Peng, J Zhang, DCW Tsang… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Polluted land is a global issue, especially for developing countries. It has been reported that
soil amendment with biochar may reduce the bioavailability of a wide range of contaminants …

An explanation of soil amendments to reduce cadmium phytoavailability and transfer to food chain

Y Hamid, L Tang, MI Sohail, X Cao, B Hussain… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cadmium contamination in soil, water and food has become a global problem since last
century's industrial and agricultural revolution. It is a highly toxic metal with serious …

A critical review on effects, tolerance mechanisms and management of cadmium in vegetables

M Rizwan, S Ali, M Adrees, M Ibrahim, DCW Tsang… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in vegetables is an important environmental issue that
threatens human health globally. Understanding the response of vegetables to Cd stress …