The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

Identifying sources and transport routes of heavy metals in soil is necessary for pollution
control. This study integrated principal component analysis (PCA), positive matrix …

Smelting activities are considered as the primary cause of heavy metal (HM) accumulation in
soils, and the human health around the smelter has been a great concern worldwide. In this …

Heavy metals are considered main pollutants in soil, which can be transferred to food chain
through crops. So far, there have been several methods such as physical, chemical …

Non-ferrous smelting is a primary cause of serious soil pollution. Contamination and health
risks of heavy metals in soils around various types of non-ferrous smelteries in China were …

Lead is known to have toxic effects on the cardiovascular system. Owing to its high
concentration, transmission range, and absorption efficiency in organisms, inhalation of fine …

The continuous release of toxic heavy metals (HMs) in the soil has made the soil vulnerable
to the environment. Metals come into the soil through natural processes (geogenic and air …

To understand the influence of Pb/Zn smelter on surrounding environment, 110 soil and 62
wheat grain samples (62 paired samples) were collected nearby a Pb/Zn smelter in Jiaozuo …

Accurate risk assessment of heavy metal pollution in soil is a prerequisite for environmental
and human health protection. Due to the spatial heterogeneity in the environment, biased …