background: groundwater resources in arid and semi arid regions are very important. groundwater is contaminated by agricultural, industrial and municipal activity which as a result reduces its quality. investigating of the chemical quality of the groundwater is emphasized to identify pollutant environmental impacts associated with incorrect waste disposal practice. this research investigated th...

The ability of water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes Mart. Solms.) to absorb and translocate cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and nickel (Ni) was studied in the Erh-Chung wetlands. Translocation ability was defined as the quantity of Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Zn translocated in the plant’s tissues, and was expressed as a root/shoot ratio. The ratio results were in the order of Cu>Pb>C...

BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE Water quality impairment by heavy metal contamination is on the rise worldwide. Phytoremediation technology has been increasingly applied to remediate wastewater and stormwater polluted by heavy metals. MATERIALS AND METHODS Laboratory analysis and field trials were conducted to evaluate the uptake of metals (Al, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, and Zn)...

The Hai River Basin (HRB) is one of the most polluted river basins in China. The basin suffers from various types of pollutants including heavy metals and nutrients due to a high population density and rapid economic development in this area. We assessed the relationship between heavy metal accumulation by periphyton playing an important role in fluvial food webs and eutrophication in the HRB. ...

the toxicity of four potentially toxic trace elements (cu, ni, pb and zn) to annual atriplex (a.hortensis and a. rosea) was examined to determine if this plant showed sufficient tolerance to be used tophytoremediate soils polluted with these heavy metals. the soils, which contained up to (per kilogram) 501mg cu, 1674 mg ni, 1334 mg pb and 3588 mg of zn were sampled around metal-contaminated sit...

West Guangdong is an important ecological barrier in province, so understanding the spatial patterns and sources of heavy metal pollution forest soil this region great significance for protection. In study, concentrations metals (Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn, Ni) were determined. Geostatistics, single-factor index (PI), potential risk (RI), principal component analysis (PCA), Pearson’s correlation used to ev...

Study was made on the significance of urinary cadmium concentration as an indicator of internal dose in a general environment polluted by cadmium. As an index of external dose, the mean rice cadmium concentration in each of 23 villages was employed. Morning urine samples were collected from 3,178 inhabitants of 23 cadmium-polluted villages of Kakehashi River basin in Ishikawa Prefecture and 294...

We studied the species composition, mound population densities, relative abundance and colony sizes of red wood ants along a well known air pollution gradient of a copper smelter in Southwest Finland. The dominant species, Formica aquilonia, was further studied for heavy metal (Al, Cu, Cd, Ni, Zn, As, Pb, Hg) levels and morphological characters (body mass, head width, labial gland disease) of w...

bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the skulls of black-striped field mice (apodemusagrarius) was compared for two localities in serbia differing in the level of pollution. eight heavy metals: fe, mn, co, cd, zn, ni, pb and cu, were quantitatively analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.four of them (mn, cd, fe and ni) showed significantly higher concentrations at the polluted location t...