The abandoned mining district of Linares (South Spain) is marked with waste from the and processing metal ores that pose an environmental hazard to watercourses. A combined analysis waste, sediments water was carried out analyse impact a smelter on Baños Creek. composition facility determined using X-ray diffractometry scanning electron microscopy. total contents metal(loid)s in waters watercou...

During the years 1989-91, 1997-2003, and 2005-07, we studied how emissions from the Middle Urals copper smelter affect snail availability and reproduction of free-living pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca). We counted snail shells dropped in nests and analysed food samples of nestlings. Pied flycatchers brought to nestlings fewer shells in heavily polluted sites compared to background sites, ...