2022
DOI: 10.3390/environments9030032
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Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids

Abstract: Soils are central to life on Earth because they provide food, clean water, and air due to their filtering capacity; raw materials; habitats for living organisms; and climate resilience via carbon sequestration, therefore supporting a variety of ecosystem services [...]

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“…Such a lithology contributes to a cleaner environment within a sustainable and blue-green approach. It relates to the protection of groundwater and surface water quality (SDG 6), and is consistent with other SDGs (2, 3, 7, 12, 13 and 15) [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”
Section: Study Area Overviewsupporting
confidence: 82%
“…Such a lithology contributes to a cleaner environment within a sustainable and blue-green approach. It relates to the protection of groundwater and surface water quality (SDG 6), and is consistent with other SDGs (2, 3, 7, 12, 13 and 15) [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”
Section: Study Area Overviewsupporting
confidence: 82%
“…However, the presence of excessive amounts of these two elements can also be toxic to plants [4]. In recent years, the extensive use of zinc-containing and copper-containing pesticides and fertilizers, as well as the development of zinc and copper mining, means that the pollution of zinc and copper in soil has become increasingly serious [3,37]. In order to solve the damage caused by soil metal pollution to plants, people have tried many methods.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They are involved in various metabolic processes or act as activators or constituents of enzymes. However, due to continuous anthropogenic activities such as mining, smelting operations or application of fertilizers, HMs in soils are more often found in toxic or lethal concentrations (Gasparatos, 2022;Adnan et al, 2022). The presence of HMs in high concentrations disrupt the primary and secondary metabolism of plants, thus hindering their yield and overall health.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%