Water contamination is one of the most significant hazards to human health on the world
scale. Drinking water quality in Pakistan is decreasing gradually due to alarming population …

Contamination of freshwater fish with toxic heavy metals and metalloids is a major
environmental issue in terms of public health. For instance, Cd, Pb, Hg and As are …

Groundwater quality monitoring is important in an arid region like Balochistan province,
Pakistan. This province is characterized by lack of recharge, high evaporation rate coupled …

The elevated concentrations of heavy metals in soil considerably threaten ecological and
human health. To this end, the present study assesses metals pollution and its threat to …

The non-biodegradable nature of waste emitted from the agriculture and industrial sector
contaminates freshwater reserves. Fabrication of highly effective and low-cost …

Heavy metals (HMs) and metalloid occur naturally and are found throughout the Earth's crust
but they are discharged into aquatic environments at high concentrations by human …

Sulfidic mine waste can pose environmental and human health risks, especially when it
contains high levels of mobile metal (loid) s. To assess the environmental and health risks of …

This study investigated the spatio-temporal variation of heavy metal concentrations in
roadside dust and its correlation with heavy metal content in roadside plant leaves. Sixty re …

We examined the current groundwater (used for drinking) quality in Pakistan after
implementation of Millennium Development Goals, including contaminants, their sources …

Fish and shellfish belonging to five different species among pelagic, benthonic and
molluscs, were collected from the Gulf of Catania in 2017 to evaluate arsenic (As), cadmium …