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Ingestion and polymeric risk assessment of microplastic contamination in commercially important brachyuran crab Portunus sanguinolentus

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Microplastic (MP) in seafood is a growing area of food safety. In the present study, MP contamination in the commercially important crab Portunus sanguinolentus was assessed.
Vasantkumar Rabari, Heris Patel, Daoud Ali, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Ashish Patel, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, Jigneshkumar Trivedi   +6 more
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Evaluation of Individual and Integrated Pollution Indices of Some Heavy Metals in Atmospheric Dust Deposition Around Khak-e-chini, Tile and Ceramic, Sand and Gravel and Glass in Ardakan County Industries in Winter 2018

Muhandisī-i Bihdāsht-i Muḥīṭ, 2020
Background and objective: Striving for employment in developing countries, as industries develop, heavy metals are released to the environment continuously.
Saeed Shojaee Barjoee, HamidReza Azimzadeh, Asghar Mosleh Arani   +2 more
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Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination and Ecological Risk in Urban River Sediments: A Case Study from Leyte, Philippines

Pollutants
This study evaluated heavy metal (HM) contamination in sediments from the Malbasag River in the Ormoc City port, Leyte, Philippines. A total of thirty sediment samples were collected randomly from ten locations along the river using an Ekman grab sampler.
Abu Bakar Siddique, Abu Sayed Al Helal, Teofanes A. Patindol, Deejay M. Lumanao, Kleer Jeann G. Longatang, Md. Alinur Rahman, Lorene Paula A. Catalvas, Anabella B. Tulin, Molla Rahman Shaibur   +8 more
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Anthropogenic effect on the pedochemical variability of potentially toxic elements at the vicinity of an Antarctic research station [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Antarctica represents an isolated continent devoted to conservation and scientific research, although it accumulates records of increasing anthropic contamination.
CAIK O. DE MIRANDA, ELIAS DE LIMA NETO, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER   +2 more
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Assessment of the Impact of Coal Mining on Water Resources in Middelburg, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: Using Different Water Quality Indices

Hydrology
The objective of this study was to assess the water quality status of the surface water and groundwater resources in the Middelburg area, South Africa.
Mndeni Magagula, Ernestine Atangana, Paul Oberholster   +2 more
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Spatiotemporal discrepancies and risk assessment of toxic heavy metals in surface water of Shitalakhya River around Narayanganj port in Bangladesh

International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology
The urban rivers of developing countries like Bangladesh have been severely affected by toxic heavy metal pollution, posing serious ecological and human health risks.
Shahrina Sultana, Md. Sirajul Islam, Md. Humayun Kabir, Rima Sarker, Tanmoy Roy Tusher, Mir Md. Mozammal Hoque, Nowara Tamanna Meghla   +6 more
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Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution and Stable Isotopic Signatures in Hard Rock Aquifers of Krishnagiri District, South India

Geosciences, 2019
The area chosen for study, Krishnagiri district, has a hard rock terrain and the aquifers located there are sparsely recharged by limited rainfall. The study area has a complex geology with hard rock aquifers.
S. Manikandan, S. Chidambaram, M. V. Prasanna, Rakesh Roshan Ganayat   +3 more
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Pollution and Health Risk Assessments of Potentially Toxic Elements in Soil and Sediment Samples in a Petrochemical Industry and Surrounding Area

Molecules, 2019
The pollution state and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements (PTE) in soil and sediment samples of the petrochemical industry and its surrounding area are evaluated in this study.
Dubravka Relić, Sanja Sakan, Ivan Anđelković, Aleksandar Popović, Dragana Đorđević   +4 more
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Application of Water Quality and Ecology Indices of Benthic Macroinvertebrate to Evaluate Water Quality of Tertiary Irrigation in Malang District

Journal of Tropical Life Science, 2013
This research aims to determine the water quality of tertiary irrigation in several subdistricts in Malang, namely Kepanjen, Karangploso, and Tumpang. The water quality depends on the water quality indices (National Sanitation Foundation’s-NSF Indices ...
Desi Kartikasari, Catur Retnaningdyah, Endang Arisoesilaningsih   +2 more
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Assessing Urban Soils in the Norilsk Industrial Region Based on Heavy Metal and Petroleum Product Pollution Indices

Land
The soil condition of Norilsk, a large industrial city located in the Arctic zone of Russia, was assessed for the first time using pollution indices calculated based on the gross content of Pb, Zn, Co, Cd, Cu, Ni, Cr, Mn, As, and petroleum products.
Vladimir Myazin, Vyacheslav Vasenev, Maria Korneykova, Natalia Karmanovskaya, Yulia Sotnikova   +4 more
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