Priority control of potentially toxic elements in urban park soils through integrated source apportionment and health risk assessment

Source identification and risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in surface soil of townships in the northwest Hebei region

Soil environmental quality in rural areas is not only crucial to the implementation of the rural revitalisation strategy, but also directly impacts the smooth progress of integrated urban-rural development. However, it faces an increasing risk of contamination from PTEs. Consequently, systematically identifying sources...

Heavy metal contamination, risk assessment, and source apportionment of roadside dust in a rapidly urbanizing tropical city: Implications for developing urban environments

Source Apportionment-Based Assessment of Ecological and Health Risk for Potentially Toxic Elements in the Soil Around a Uranium Mine

Uranium is a critical strategic resource. However, uranium mining can cause severe contamination of surrounding soils by potentially toxic elements (PTEs). Conventional approaches that separately perform source apportionment and risk assessment fail to establish a direct linkage between pollution sources and their asso...

From environment to human: systematic assessment of heavy metal contamination and exposure in a typical karst agricultural area

Evaluating the Health and Ecological Risks of Toxic Elements in the Agricultural Soil of China using Traditional and Advanced Techniques: A One Health Approach

Agricultural soil quality is critical for sustainable food production, yet contamination by toxic elements (TEs) may pose ecological and human health risks. This study assessed the concentrations, ecological impacts, and potential health risks of five TEs (Cr, Cu, Cd, Pb, and Zn) in agricultural soils across China by...

Heavy metal contamination, source apportionment and health risk in soil-crop systems of high-geochemical-background Pb-Zn mining area

Summary Mining and smelting, combined with high-geochemical-backgrounds, cause heavy metal accumulation in soil-crop systems, endangering food-chain health. Topsoil (0–20 cm) and three local crops were sampled from Yunnan’s Huize lead-zinc mining area. Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd contamination, spatial patterns, source contribution...