Heavy metal contamination is a globally recognized environmental issue, threatening
human life very seriously. Increasing population and high demand for food resulted in …

Vanadium is a metal that receives increasing attention due to its possible toxicity and its
increased use in society, ie in high-grade steel and in vanadium redox-flow batteries …

Nickel (Ni) metal and Ni compounds are widely used in applications like stainless steel,
alloys, and batteries. Nickel is a naturally occurring element in water, soil, air, and living …

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) constitute emerging environmental pollutants and pose
risks to public health. Toxic metals are known to select for metal-resistant bacteria in metal …

Soil organic carbon is essential to improve soil fertility and ecosystem functioning. Soil
microorganisms contribute significantly to the carbon transformation and immobilisation …

Abstract The European Commission has recently revised the EU legislation on fertilisers,
expanding its scope to secondary-raw-material-based fertilising products, and resulting in …

The GEMAS (geochemical mapping of agricultural soil) project collected 2108 Ap horizon
soil samples from regularly ploughed fields in 33 European countries, covering 5.6 million …

The discovery in the early 1980s that soil microorganisms, and in particular the symbiotic
bacteria Rhizobium, were highly sensitive to heavy metals initiated a new line of research …

It is imperative to derive an appropriate cadmium (Cd) health risk toxicity threshold for paddy
soils to ensure the Cd concentration of rice grains meet the food safety standard. In this …

Toxic metal pollution affects the composition and metal tolerance of soil bacterial
communities. However, there is virtually no knowledge concerning the responses of …