Sustainable remediation and redevelopment of brownfield sites

D Hou, A Al-Tabbaa, D O'Connor, Q Hu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Widespread pollution from industrial activities has driven land degradation with detrimental
human health effects, especially in urban areas. Remediation and redevelopment of the …

Advanced oxidation process (AOP) combined biological process for wastewater treatment: A review on advancements, feasibility and practicability of combined …

A Babuponnusami, S Sinha, H Ashokan, MV Paul… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Complexity of wastewater is the most challenging phenomenon on successful degradation
of pollutant via any wastewater treatment regime. Upon availability of numerous techniques …

Remediation of soil and water contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbon: A review

IC Ossai, A Ahmed, A Hassan, FS Hamid - Environmental Technology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The global use of petroleum hydrocarbons for energy and raw materials in various
applications has increased with extensive release of a wide variety of contaminants into the …

Pharmaceuticals of emerging concern in aquatic systems: chemistry, occurrence, effects, and removal methods

M Patel, R Kumar, K Kishor, T Mlsna… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the last few decades, pharmaceuticals, credited with saving millions of lives, have
emerged as a new class of environmental contaminant. These compounds can have both …

An overview of soil and soilless cultivation techniques—chances, challenges and the neglected question of sustainability

A Fussy, J Papenbrock - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Resources such as fertile soil and clean water are already limited in many parts of the world.
Additionally, the conventional use of arable land is becoming increasingly difficult, which is …

Phytoremediation: Environmentally sustainable way for reclamation of heavy metal polluted soils

S Ashraf, Q Ali, ZA Zahir, S Ashraf… - … and environmental safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil contamination with toxic metals is a widespread environmental issue resulting from
global industrialization within the past few years. Therefore, decontamination of heavy metal …

Application of floating aquatic plants in phytoremediation of heavy metals polluted water: A review

S Ali, Z Abbas, M Rizwan, IE Zaheer, İ Yavaş, A Ünay… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Heavy-metal (HM) pollution is considered a leading source of environmental contamination.
Heavy-metal pollution in ground water poses a serious threat to human health and the …

Heavy metal pollution in the soil of contaminated sites in China: Research status and pollution assessment over the past two decades

K Yan, H Wang, Z Lan, J Zhou, HZ Fu, L Wu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contaminated sites are receiving more and more attention internationally because they
pose a serious threat to the ecological environment and human health. Although the …

Heavy metal transporters: Functional mechanisms, regulation, and application in phytoremediation

Z Yang, F Yang, JL Liu, HT Wu, H Yang, Y Shi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution in soil is a global problem with serious impacts on human health and
ecological security. Phytoextraction in phytoremediation, in which plants uptake and …

New opportunities in plant microbiome engineering for increasing agricultural sustainability under stressful conditions

MS Afridi, MA Javed, S Ali, FHV De Medeiros… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant microbiome (or phytomicrobiome) engineering (PME) is an anticipated untapped
alternative strategy that could be exploited for plant growth, health and productivity under …