The implantation of wastewater treatment systems aims to minimize environmental impacts, but ultimately generates waste materials, such as sewage sludge, which must be properly discarded. Final disposal in landfills, and ...

Ingestion of vegetables containing heavy metals is one of the main ways in which these elements enter the human body. Once entered, heavy metals are deposited in bone and fat tissues, overlapping noble minerals. Slowly ...

Human development has brought worldwide problems regarding environmental pollution since our plant, animal and industrial production systems inject a high diversity of organic and inorganic pollutants into fresh underground ...

A long-term study programme has evaluated heavy metals in the Bahı ́a Blanca estuary, considering occurrence, concentration and distribution in the estuarine sediments, as well as their corresponding geochemical partitioning ...

Soil management using fertilizers can modify soil chemical, biochemical and biological properties, including the concentration of trace-elements as cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cd) and nickel (Ni). Bacterial isolates from Cd, ...

This article presents an advance to the knowledge in the solution of heavy metal environmental pollution using living microalgae cells. The study aims to evaluate the toxic effects of copper and lead on the growth of ...

The role of air pollution as a health risk factor is of special interest. Numerous toxic pollutants, such as nickel, are being released to the environment as a result of combustion of fossil fuels, crude oil, and coal. ...