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ClearEditorial: Environmental pollutants in agroecosystem: toxicity, mechanism, and remediation
This editorial introduces a research collection on environmental pollutants in agroecosystems, summarizing contributions examining the toxicity, mechanisms of action, and remediation strategies for pollutants affecting plant-soil-water systems including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging contaminants.
Research of New Pollutant Microplastics in Soil
This review summarizes microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, covering sources, abundance, transport pathways, and interactions with heavy metals and organic pollutants. The authors highlight that soil microplastic contamination is a growing threat to food security and soil ecosystem health.
Agricultural Environmental Pollution, Risk Assessment, and Control
This book chapter reviews the growing burden of agricultural environmental pollution — from pesticide residues to microplastics and heavy metals — and evaluates risk assessment frameworks and control strategies for protecting soil health and food safety.
Editorial: Impact of microplastics on soil health and plant physiology in agricultural ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on microplastic impacts in agricultural soil ecosystems, highlighting how plastic contamination alters soil biogeochemical processes, microbial activity, and plant physiology, and calling for a precautionary approach to plastic use in farming.
Contaminants in Agriculture and Environment: Health Risks and Remediation
This book chapter reviewed contaminants in agricultural environments and their health risks, covering heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and summarizing remediation strategies for both soil and crop systems. The authors discuss the intersection of food security and environmental contamination in modern agricultural production systems.
Editorial for Special Issue on “Soil Solutions for a Sustainable World”
This editorial introduces a special issue on soil solutions for sustainable development, framing the critical role of soils in providing ecosystem services — including food production, water purification, and biodiversity support — while highlighting mounting anthropogenic threats such as erosion, contamination, and compaction.
Editorial: Environmental remediation strategies of new and emerging chemical contaminants
This editorial introduces a special issue on remediation strategies for emerging chemical contaminants, including microplastics, antibiotics, and specialty chemicals. These persistent pollutants accumulate in soil and water and require advanced clean-up approaches as their environmental presence grows.
Editorial: Addressing microplastic contamination: sustainable solutions for resilient food systems
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastic contamination in food production systems, from agriculture to aquaculture. It frames the challenge of reducing plastic pollution in food supply chains as urgent given both growing global food demand and the widespread use of plastics throughout food industries.
Research on Heavy Metals in Soils and Sediments
Despite its title referencing soil and sediments research, this paper is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on heavy metals (such as cadmium and lead) in soils — not microplastic pollution. It summarizes 14 studies on trace metal contamination and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
Research on Heavy Metals in Soils and Sediments
This editorial introduces a special issue on heavy metals in soils and sediments, covering mobile soil fractions, soil-to-plant transfer, nanoparticle elemental composition in groundwater, and near-infrared non-invasive screening for microplastics and combustion-derived particles. The collection emphasizes multi-method approaches to characterizing contaminant mobility and bioavailability across soil compartments.
Environmental interactions and remediation strategies for co-occurring pollutants in soil
Researchers review how multiple pollutants — including heavy metals, pesticides, and microplastics — interact in contaminated soils, creating combined effects that are harder to remediate than any single pollutant alone. The review synthesizes current remediation strategies and identifies key knowledge gaps in understanding how co-occurring pollutants behave together, which is critical for protecting agricultural soil health and food safety.
Environmental geochemistry of emerging contaminants: impacts on agroecosystem function, food security, and human health
This review examines how emerging contaminants including microplastics, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and engineered nanomaterials threaten agricultural ecosystems and food safety. Researchers found that these pollutants persist in soil, accumulate in crops, and disrupt beneficial soil organisms, creating complex risks that are difficult to manage with current approaches. The study emphasizes the urgent need for integrated monitoring and remediation strategies to protect both food production and human health.
Improving Functioning of Soil–Plant Systems Using the Application of Sustainable and Intelligent Methods
This editorial introduces a special journal issue on improving soil-plant system functioning using sustainable agricultural methods. Microplastic contamination of agricultural soils is increasingly recognized as a challenge for crop production and soil health.
Editorial: Advanced technologies for remedying environmental pollution in agricultural systems
This editorial introduces a research topic on advanced technologies for remediating environmental pollution in agricultural systems, highlighting the broad ecological and economic impacts of pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, nanomaterials, and novel contaminants on crops, microorganisms, and food chains. The editors call for investigation into the toxicity mechanisms and remediation potential of emerging technologies to address pollution in both developed and economically disadvantaged regions.
Paving the way toward soil safety and health: current status, challenges, and potential solutions
This review examines the global threats to soil health from industrial chemical contamination and explores potential solutions including monitoring, advanced remediation technologies, and holistic soil management. While covering soil pollution broadly, it is relevant to microplastics because they are a major and growing soil contaminant that is extremely difficult to remove once introduced. The review emphasizes that preventing pollutants from entering soil is far more effective and less costly than trying to clean up contamination afterward.
Research on Soil Management and Conservation
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a brief editorial introduction to a journal special issue on soil management and conservation, with no substantive content about microplastic pollution.
A critical review of co-pollution of microplastics and heavy metals in agricultural soil environments
This review examines how microplastics and heavy metals frequently occur together in agricultural soil, where they interact in ways that can increase the toxicity of both. These co-contaminants can harm soil organisms, reduce crop productivity, and potentially enter the human food chain, making their combined presence in farmland a growing concern for food safety and health.
A Review on Microplastic in the Soils and Their Impact on Soil Microbes, Crops and Humans
This review examines microplastic contamination in agricultural soils, detailing how microplastic particles act as vectors for toxic organic pollutants and heavy metals, disrupting soil physicochemical properties, microbial communities, crop growth, and ultimately entering the human food chain.
Asia’s soil contamination crisis: causes, consequences, and sustainable solutions: a comprehensive review
This review addresses Asia's soil contamination crisis, examining how rapid urbanization, intensive agriculture, and poor waste management have created widespread heavy metal and microplastic soil pollution threatening food security, biodiversity, and human health across the continent.
Editorial: Interaction of nano and microplastic with different plant species: concerns and opportunities
This editorial introduces research on how nano- and microplastics affect plants, covering both risks and potential opportunities. Plastics in agricultural soils can carry heavy metals and organic pollutants into crops, posing risks to food safety and ecosystem health.
Agricultural Microplastics Pollution: From Hidden Threats to Global Food Security Towards Sustainable Strategies
This comprehensive review examines agricultural microplastic pollution across the atmosphere, soil, water, and biological systems, proposing a framework linking farming-derived MP contamination to food security risks and calling for integrated approaches to manage MNPs in agricultural systems.
Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: An Emerging Threat to Soil Health, Microbial Ecology, Crop Productivity, and Food Safety
This review examines how microplastics accumulate in agricultural soils from sources like plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and atmospheric deposition. Researchers found that these particles can disrupt soil microbial communities, harm plant health, and potentially enter the human food chain. The study highlights the urgent need for mitigation strategies to address this growing but often overlooked form of pollution in farmland.
Beneath the Surface: Unmasking the Global Crisis of Soil Pollution
This review examines soil pollution as a global crisis driven by industrial emissions, intensive agriculture, and poor waste management, covering how heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and emerging contaminants accumulate in soils, degrade microbial communities, reduce crop yields, and enter the food chain.
Pay Attention to Research on Microplastic Pollution in Soil for Prevention of Ecological and Food Chain Risks
This review summarizes research on microplastic sources, accumulation, degradation, and ecological effects in agricultural soils, arguing that soil microplastic pollution deserves the same level of attention as marine microplastic pollution. The paper calls for greater investment in understanding how microplastics affect soil organisms, plant health, and food safety in terrestrial food production systems.