Rare earth elements (REE) are a homogenous group of 17 chemical elements in the
periodic table that are key to many modern industries including chemicals, consumer …

The increasing number of rare earth elements (REEs) studies in the past decade has been
induced by their wider applications in industry, including electronics and high technology …

Contaminated food through dietary intake has become the main potential risk impacts on
human health. This study investigated concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) in soil …

Rare earth elements (REEs) concentrated in soils have attracted increasing attention about
their impact on soil health as emerging contaminants. However, the sources of REEs …

Rare earths (RE), chemically uniform group of elements due to similar physicochemical
behavior, are termed as lanthanides. Natural occurrence depends on the geological …

Few ecotoxicological studies exist for rare earth elements (REEs), particularly field-based
studies on their bioaccumulation and food web dynamics. REE mining has led to significant …

Mining activity has an adverse impact on the surrounding ecosystem, especially via the
release of potentially toxic elements (PTEs); therefore, there is an urgent need to develop …

Rare earth elements (REEs) have been increasingly exploited for crucial new technologies,
and their massive use in the past decades has significantly increased their environmental …

Using validated methodology, this study explores the bioconcentration potential and status
of rare earth elements (REE) and yttrium (Y) in wild mushrooms collected from Belarus …

Edible macrofungi are being increasingly cultivated as they are seen as a sustainable and
popular food around the world. This trend is paralleled by the similar increase in the use of …