Worldwide regulatory frameworks for the assessment and remediation of contaminated soils
have moved towards a risk-based approach, taking contaminant bioavailability into …

The increase in heavy metal terrestrial ecosystems' contamination through anthropogenic
activities is a widespread and serious global problem due to their various environmental and …

Phytomining technology employs hyperaccumulator plants to take up metal in harvestable
plant biomass. Harvesting, drying and incineration of the biomass generates a high-grade …

Ultramafic soils are in equal parts fascinating and dangerous. Developed on rocks derived
predominately from the Earth's mantle and metamorphosed at the ocean floors, ultramafic …

Large ultramafic areas exist in Albania, which could be suitable for phytomining with native
Alyssum murale. We undertook a five-year field experiment on an ultramafic Vertisol, aimed …

In the last years, uncontrolled fires are frequently occurring in forest and agricultural areas
as an indirect effect of the rising aridity and global warming or caused by intentional illegal …

Abstract Background Nickel (Ni) phytomining operations cultivate hyperaccumulator plants
('metal crops') on Ni-rich (ultramafic) soils, followed by harvesting and incineration of the …

Nickel (Ni) is essential for plant metabolism but is dangerous to most plants and other
organisms when present in large concentrations. In this study, nickel (Ni) was chosen as an …

Indonesia (Sulawesi and Halmahera Islands) has some of the largest surface exposures of
ultramafic bedrock in the world, and these are the sites of productive lateritic nickel mining …

Ultramafic outcrops could represent up to 3% or more of the terrestrial surface and their
unusual geochemistry makes them a global hotspot for biodiversity. Ultramafic soils are a …