Global concerns towards potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are steadily increasing due to the
significant threats that PTEs pose to human health and environmental quality. This calls for …

Earthworms are the key soil organisms, contribute to many positive ecological services that
could be degraded by pesticides and other soil pollutants such as heavy metals. Chemicals …

Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) contaminated soil samples were collected from Shengli
Oilfield of China. Toxicity analysis was carried out based on earthworm acute toxicity, plant …

Co-contamination of ligand-like antibiotics (eg, tetracyclines and quinolones) and heavy
metals prevails in the environment, and thus the complexation between them is involved in …

The spatiotemporal distribution, source apportionment and combined pollution of 14
antibiotics in natural waters adjacent to mariculture farms of Laizhou Bay in the Bohai Sea …

Antibiotic–metal complexes (AMCs) formed by antibiotics and metal ions have attracted
considerable attentions in recent years. Although different removal methods for AMCs have …

Earthworms are known to reclaim soil contamination and maintain soil health. In the present
study, the concentration of DTPA extractable heavy metals, Cd, Cu, Cr, Pb, and Zn in …

Bioaccumulation factors for heavy metals (Cd, Zn, Cu, and Pb) were examined for selected
earthworm species (Metaphire californica, Amynthas homochaetus, Amynthas pecteniferus …

Agricultural soil is related to food security and human health, antibiotics and heavy metals
(HMs), as two typical pollutants, possess a high coexistence rate in the environmental …

Soil toxicological tests are commonly performed using Eisenia fetida as the standard
earthworm species, but it is tolerant to a wide range of pollutants. Therefore, the inclusion of …