This review contains up-to-date knowledge and recent advancements on the essentiality,
sources, and toxicological profile of nickel and its different compounds. Nickel is a …

Copper, a native metal found in ores, is the principal metal in bronze and brass. It is a
reddish metal with a density of 8920 kg m− 3. All of copper's compounds tend to be brightly …

Human-made material stocks accumulating in buildings, infrastructure, and machinery play
a crucial but underappreciated role in shaping the use of material and energy resources …

Material flow analysis (MFA), a central methodology of industrial ecology, quantifies the
ways in which the materials that enable modern society are used, reused, and lost. Sankey …

The concentrations, bioavailability, distribution, and sources of heavy metals in soils of a
typical region from coal industrial city of Tangshan, North China, were investigated. A total of …

Metal dissolution from atmospheric aerosol deposition to the oceans is important in
enhancing and inhibiting phytoplankton growth rates and modifying plankton community …

Toxic trace elements (TEs) can pose serious risks to ecosystems and human health.
However, a comprehensive understanding of atmospheric emission inventories for several …

Assessing progress towards environmental sustainability requires a robust and systematic
knowledge base. Economy-wide material flow accounting (ew-MFA) is an established …

In the present study, phosphogypsum slag-based cementitious material (PS) was designed,
and the potential use for solidifying/stabilizing lead-contaminated soils was investigated …

Synthesizing published data, we provide a quantitative summary of the global
biogeochemical cycle of vanadium (V), including both human-derived and natural fluxes …