Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously …

In the last decade, extensive studies have been conducted to quantify the influence of
different factors on potentially toxic elements (PTE) bioaccessibility in soil; one of the most …

Chronic exposure to arsenic may be detrimental to health. We investigated the behaviour,
remediation and risk management of arsenic in Freiberg, Germany, characterized by past …

Increased interest in backyard food production has drawn attention to the risks associated
with urban trace element contamination, in particular lead (Pb) that was used in abundance …

The bioaccessibility of metal (loid) s in ambient particulate matter (PM) has been recently
used to represent the risk of inhalation exposure. Nevertheless, different methodological …

Abstract Potentially Toxic Elements (PTE) are common soil contaminants and pose a
significant risk to human health. In this study, ingestion (< 150 μm) and inhalation (< 10 μm) …

Arsenic is ubiquitous in soil and water environments and is consistently at the top of the
Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) substance priority list. It has been …

Air pollution is a major issue for human health with more than 7 million premature deaths per
year due to indoor and outdoor air pollution. Exposure to particulate matter is correlated with …

Recent studies in the southwestern United States have shown that smelting processes and
mine tailings emit heavy metal (loid) s that are distributed via wind dispersion to nearby …

Air pollution is one of the leading causes of death from noncommunicable diseases globally,
and in Arizona, both mining activities and abandoned agriculture can generate erodible …