Spatial Distribution and Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Sediments of Tobruk Bay (Libya)

Distribution, pollution, and human health risks of persistent and potentially toxic elements in the sediments around Hainan Island, China

“…Advances in agricultural technology and industry development near coastal areas have brought about a significant increase in potential risks to human health, on account of increased levels of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) (Shaheen et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2017). Industrial development is normally associated with the release of PTEs into aquatic environments (Amin et al, 2020;Arisekar et al, 2020), and the risks posed by PTEs to these environments are inherently related to their interactions with water and sediments. In recent years, shipping and industrialization have come to be considered the main sources of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ti and Zn in surface sediments (Zhuang et al, 2019), while Cd is understood to be primarily transferred through agricultural production (Khusnidinov et al, 2020), industrial effluents and smelting slags, owing to rough smelting processes and inefficient recycling methods (Wang et al, 2019).…”