Abstract This study investigated 16 United States environmental protection agency priority
PAHs profiles and their sources in 40 urban soils collected from two industrialised cities …

Understanding the source-specific human health risk of soil potential toxicity elements
(PTEs) for human is beneficial for pollution control and risk prevention. Multivariate statistics …

The world population exceeded 7.8 billion people in 2020 and is predicted to reach 9.9
billion by 2050 as per the current increasing rate of 25%. In view of this, ensuring human …

Evidence from the laboratory suggests that microplastics (MPs) can harm soil
microorganisms, affecting the structures and functions of microbial communities. The impact …

Although microplastic (MP) pollution has been defined as a new global challenge by the
United Nations Environment Programme, their abundance and composition has only been …

Background Black carbon (BC) encompasses a range of carbonaceous materials––
including soot, char, and charcoal––derived from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels …

Microorganisms that can simultaneously remediate organic pollutants and heavy metal
contamination are great significance in bioremediation. Nevertheless, reports of such …

Spatial distributions and sources of some commonly concerned heavy metal (loid) s (HMs,
As, Ba, Cr, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, Mn, Zn, and V) in topsoil of Mianyang city, a typical medium-sized …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are one of the important environmental pollutants
that are mainly originated from industrial activities, vehicle emissions, biomass combustion …

Phytoremediation is commonly used in the remediation of soils co-contaminated by heavy
metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) because of its economy and …