Phytoremediation using woody plants can effectively reduce heavy metal (HM) concentrations in soils. However, the remediation capacity of depends greatly on plant species and soil environmental conditions. In order to evaluate HM potential from different tailing areas, accumulation characteristics roots, shoots, leaves 12 dominant native growing iron lead-zinc areas were analyzed. The results s...

Heavy metals may exacerbate metabolic syndrome (MS) but abnormal serum concentrations of bioelements may also co-exist with MS. The primary aim of the study was to assess the relationship of blood heavy metal and bioelement concentrations and MS, in men aged 50-75 years. Heavy metals-lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), tungsten (W), Macroelements-magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca)...

algae have been proven efficient biological vectors for heavy metal uptake. in order to further study their biosorption potential, two strains spirogyra sp. and spirulina sp. have been studied under different initial metal concentrations. in recent years, the biosorption processes have been studied extensively using microbial biomass as biosorbent for heavy metal ions removal. in these studies...

Although mining is essential for human economic development, amongst the most polluting anthropogenic sources that influence seriously in water resources. Thus, understanding presence and concentration of heavy metals sediment vicinity mines important sustainability ecosystem. In this work, a multidisciplinary approach was developed to characterize contamination level, source apportionment, co-...

background and purpose: the heavy metal pollution and its fractionations in the surface sediments of darreh-morad beyg river, hamedan city were monitored for cd, cr, cu, fe, ni, pb, and zn in 2014.   materials and methods: totally 30 surface sediment samples were taken from 10 stations with three replicates. the samples subjected to bulk digestion and chemical partitioning. the concentrations o...

The aim of this study was to determine and compare Ba, Cr, Cd, Fe, Sr, Pb, and Zn content in medicinal herbs Urtica dioica L., Taraxacum officinale, and Matricaria recutita growing in polluted and unpolluted areas of the Republic of Macedonia. The metal content was determined using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). In the unpolluted area of Mt. Plackovica the me...

The object of this study was to evaluate the effect of sewage sludge biochar on adsorption and mobility of Cr, Mn, Cu, and Zn. Biochar (BC400) was produced via pyrolysis of municipal sewage sludge at 400 °C. Maximum adsorption capacities (qm) for Zn, Cr, Mn, and Cu were 5.905, 5.724, 5.681, and 5.342 mg·g-1, respectively, in the mono-metal solution and 2.475, 8.204, 1.01, and 5.415 mg·g-1, resp...