Projecting impacts of climate change on metal mobilization at contaminated sites: Controls by the groundwater level

Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster

“…grapher) [17][18][19][20]. These byproducts of human activity include, among others, heavy metals, microplastics, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, persistent organic pollutants, tropospheric ozone, and diesel and burn particles.…”

“…These byproducts of human activity include, among others, heavy metals, microplastics, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, persistent organic pollutants, tropospheric ozone, and diesel and burn particles. Many of these contaminants can further cause changes in soil pH and salinity levels, as well as damage the stratospheric ozone layer and enhance the levels of UV radiation reaching the Earth surface [17][18][19][20][21]. In addition to directly impacting plant growth and reproduction within many eco-and agricultural systems, many of the environmental conditions described in the previous text were also found to increase the vulnerability of plants to attack by different pathogens and pests, as well as to alter the behavior of different insects, resulting in a decline in many forest ecosystems as well as insect-driven pollination [22][23][24][25][26].…”

Abiotic Stress and Reactive Oxygen Species: Generation, Signaling, and Defense Mechanisms

“…A rise in temperature coupled with precipitation reduction promotes the volatilization of xenobiotic compounds as persistent organic pollutants, exacerbating air pollution. On the other hand, the excess precipitation enhances deposits of air pollutants on land and reinforces the leaching of soil nutrients and pollutants to groundwater causing soil pollution, aquifer contamination, nutrient imbalance, and salinity [16][17][18]. In normal circumstances, fluctuation in temperature and rainfall, nutrient imbalance, waterlogging, etc.…”

Climate Change Yields Groundwater Warming in Bavaria, Germany

“…Therefore, related work and recent reviews of groundwater climate change focus mainly on change of groundwater recharge and availability (Earman and Dettinger, 2011;Green et al, 2011;Stoll et al, 2011;Alam et al, 2019;Bloomfield et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020). Potential hydrochemical effects from climate-driven shifts in groundwater levels on contaminant mobilization are stressed by Jarsjö et al (2020). The consequences of ongoing shallow groundwater warming are only rarely discussed but manifold (Riedel, 2019).…”