Agricultural soil is a non-renewable natural resource that requires careful stewardship in
order to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. However, industrial …

Worldwide, heavy metals pollution is mostly caused by rapid population growth and
industrial development which is accumulated in food webs causing a serious public health …

Environmental contamination due to heavy metals (HMs) is of serious ecotoxicological
concern worldwide because of their increasing use at industries. Due to non-biodegradable …

Phytoremediation is a cost-effective and environmentally sound approach, which uses
plants to immobilize/stabilize, extract, decay, or lessen toxicity and contaminants. Despite …

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

Phytoremediation is the use of plants to extract, immobilize, contain and/or degrade
contaminants from soil, water or air. It can be an effective strategy for on site and/or in situ …

The ability of heavy metals bioaccumulation to cause toxicity in biological systems—human,
animals, microorganisms and plants—is an important issue for environmental health and …

Phytoremediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals was tested by liming (CaCO 3) or
adding biochar (1%, 5% and 10%, mass fraction) and by growing rapeseed (Brassica napus …

Cadmium (Cd) toxicity is a widespread problem in crops grown on contaminated soils, and
little information is available on the role of inorganic amendments in Cd immobilization …

Background Many areas throughout the world are simultaneously contaminated by high
concentrations of soluble salts and by high concentrations of heavy metals that constitute a …