Climate change, inadequate possessions, and land degradation all pose obstacles to
modern agriculture. In the current scenario, the agriculture industry is mainly dependent on …

Heavy metals, a treasure of nature, turns to be toxic at high concentrations in water. Among
several methods adopted to alleviate heavy metal pollution, bioremediation is considered to …

Mining industries produce vast waste streams that pose severe environmental pollution
challenge. Conventional techniques of treatment are usually inefficient and unsustainable …

Bioleaching has been successfully used in commercial metal mining for decades. It uses
microbes to biosolubilize metal-containing inorganic compounds such as metal oxides and …

Wastes containing critical metals are generated in various fields, such as energy and
computer manufacturing. Metal-bearing wastes are considered as secondary sources of …

The continuous development of technologies involving critical metals, both in Europe and
over the world, and geopolitical challenges in areas rich in critical metal sources, imposed …

Mining has advanced primarily through the use of two strategies: pyrometallurgy and
hydrometallurgy. Both have been used successfully to extract valuable metals from ore …

The anthropogenic activities in agriculture, industrialization, mining, and metallurgy
combined with the natural weathering of rocks, have led to severe contamination of soils by …

Genome-scale metabolic models have become the tool of choice for the global analysis of
microorganism metabolism, and their reconstruction has attained high standards of quality …

The commercial application of copper bioleaching, an environmentally-friendly approach for
low-grade and secondary mineral resources recycling, has increased worldwide since the …