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ClearHeavy Metal Contamination in Urban Soils: Health Impacts on Humans and Plants: A Review
This review examines how heavy metals from factories, vehicle emissions, and improper waste disposal accumulate in urban soils and affect human health. Exposure to these contaminated soils has been linked to breathing problems, brain disorders, and general toxicity. The findings highlight the need for soil monitoring and cleanup strategies to protect city residents.
Comprehensive assessment of heavy metal pollution in urban environme nts: A case study from Jelgava, Latvia
Researchers conducted a comprehensive assessment of heavy metal pollution patterns in the urban environment of Jelgava, Latvia, to characterize technogenic background formation and spatial pollution structure. The study identified pollution hotspots and spatial gradients of contamination including particulate matter and associated metals in the urban air quality context.
Environmental Impacts of Industrial Activities on Soil and Water Quality: a Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review synthesized 2023–2025 evidence on how industrial activities introduce heavy metals, organic contaminants, microplastics, and nutrients into soils and water, degrading ecosystem function and posing health risks through multiple exposure pathways.
Bibliometric and visual analysis of heavy metal health risk assessment: development, hotspots and trends
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of heavy metal health risk assessment literature from 2000 to 2022, identifying development trends and research hotspots. The study reveals growing global attention to environmental heavy metal contamination, which often co-occurs with microplastic pollution in soil and water systems.
Accumulation Characteristics and Pollution Evaluation of Soil Heavy Metals in Different Land Use Types: Study on the Whole Region of Tianjin
Researchers analyzed heavy metal accumulation across different land use types throughout Tianjin, China, finding that pollution levels and spatial distribution varied significantly by land use, with industrial and traffic-related activities identified as primary contamination sources.
Assessment of Microplastics and Heavy Metal Contamination in Urban Road Dust: A Case Study from Begusarai, Bihar
Road dust samples from 33 sites across five land-use zones in Begusarai, Bihar, India contained microplastics at all locations alongside elevated heavy metals, with industrial and commercial zones showing the highest combined contamination and estimated human health risks.
Exploring heavy metal dynamics and risks from dust and soil in urban cities of Jharkhand, India
Researchers assessed heavy metal contamination in indoor dust, street dust, and soil across four major cities in Jharkhand, India, finding that zinc, copper, and lead were the most common pollutants. Indoor dust showed higher metal concentrations than outdoor samples, suggesting significant indoor contamination sources from vehicles, paints, and manufacturing. The study emphasizes the need for stricter regulations to mitigate metal emissions in industrialized urban areas.
Environmental health risks for worker housing near Vietnam industrial zones
Researchers assessed environmental health risks for migrant workers living near industrial zones in Vietnam by measuring water quality metals and ambient air particulate matter from 2018 through 2020. While focused primarily on metals and air quality rather than microplastics specifically, the study documents pollution exposure pathways relevant to understanding industrial contamination in developing regions. The findings highlight the vulnerability of informal housing communities near industrial areas to multiple environmental pollutants.
Assessment of potentially toxic elements in groundwater through interpolation, pollution indices, and chemometric techniques in Dehradun in Uttarakhand State
Researchers assessed potentially toxic heavy metals (including iron, cadmium, lead, and chromium) in groundwater across an industrial region of northern India, finding contamination levels linked to agricultural runoff, industrial discharge, and land use patterns that pose ongoing health risks to local communities.
Advances in Studies on Heavy Metals in Urban Soil: A Bibliometric Analysis
This bibliometric analysis maps two decades of research on heavy metal contamination in urban soils, identifying key trends, leading researchers, and priority topics. The field has grown significantly, with focus areas including pollution source identification, health risk assessment, and the use of environmental magnetism techniques. While centered on heavy metals rather than microplastics, the research is relevant because microplastics in urban soil often carry and concentrate heavy metals, creating combined pollution that threatens human health.
Appraisal of Heavy Metals Accumulation, Physiological Response, and Human Health Risks of Five Crop Species Grown at Various Distances from Traffic Highway
Researchers examined heavy metal accumulation in five crop species grown at various distances from a traffic highway, finding that proximity to roads significantly increased metal contamination in crops and posed potential health risks through the 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.
Urban Soils and Road Dust—Civilization Effects and Metal Pollution—A Review
This review examined how urbanization changes soil structure, composition, and metal pollution, covering compaction, sealing, contamination from traffic and industry, and the accumulation of platinum group metals from catalytic converter wear — with examples drawn from cities on multiple continents.
A review of soil pollution, causes, and health effects
This review summarized the causes, extent, and health effects of soil pollution, covering both natural and anthropogenic sources including industrial activity, agriculture, and urbanization. The paper discussed how soil contamination degrades agricultural productivity, contaminates water resources, and poses direct risks to human health.
An insight into the ecological risks and mitigation of heavy metal pollution in aquatic sediments and marine ecosystems
This review examines heavy metal pollution in aquatic sediments and marine ecosystems, covering contamination sources, ecological risks, and mitigation strategies. The study highlights the deterioration of aquatic zones due to rising pollution from urbanization and industrialization, and discusses how pollutants including microplastics interact with heavy metals to affect biogeochemical cycling and the food chain.
Emerging environmental contaminants: Sources, effects on biodiversity and humans, remediation, and conservation implications
This review examines how emerging environmental contaminants, including microplastics, heavy metals, and industrial chemicals, are affecting both wildlife and people, especially in developing countries. Communities living near mines and factories face the highest exposure through contaminated soil, water, and food. The authors call for better environmental policies, public awareness, and cleanup technologies to protect biodiversity and human health.
Heavy metal pollution and ecological risk under different land use types: based on the similarity of pollution sources and comparing the results of three evaluation models
Researchers analyzed heavy metal contamination across five land use types on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, finding that industrial activities like metallurgy and mining were the primary sources of cadmium, copper, and lead pollution, with the highest risk levels in watered and urban lands rather than grasslands.
A Monitoring System for Air Quality and Soil Environment in Mining Areas Based on the Internet of Things
This study used meta-analysis and IoT-based monitoring to assess heavy metal contamination in mining area soils in Southwest China, finding that oral intake and dermal contact are the primary exposure routes. Children face the highest noncarcinogenic risk from heavy metal exposure in mining regions. The research highlights how environmental monitoring systems can track pollutant distribution, an approach equally applicable to tracking microplastic contamination in soil and air.
The Impact of Industrialization, Urbanization, and Drought on Heavy Metal Contamination in River Systems in Kwazulu-natal, South Africa: a Cross-sectional Study.
This cross-sectional study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa investigated how industrialization, urbanization, and drought interact to drive heavy metal contamination in river systems, finding that low water levels during drought amplify pollutant concentrations.
Impacts of Heavy Metal Pollution on Ethiopian Agriculture: A Review on the Safety and Quality of Vegetable Crops
This review examines heavy metal contamination in Ethiopian vegetable crops caused by rapid urbanization and industrial expansion, finding that toxic metals accumulate through irrigation with contaminated water and pose significant food safety and health risks.
Effects of environmental pollution on wildlife and human Health and novel mitigation strategies
This review examines how environmental pollution from urbanization, industrialization, and chemical misuse affects both wildlife and human health across multiple ecosystems. The study discusses novel mitigation strategies for addressing contamination issues including chemical residues in animal-derived foods and the rising frequency of environment-related toxicity.
Heavy metal concentrations in soil and ecological risk assessment in the vicinity of Tianzhu Industrial Park, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Researchers measured the concentrations of ten heavy metals in soils near an industrial park on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and assessed the ecological risks. They found elevated levels of cadmium, mercury, and arsenic in some areas, with risk assessments indicating moderate to high contamination near the industrial zone. The study underscores the vulnerability of high-altitude plateau soils to industrial pollution, even in regions known for their environmental sensitivity.
Assessing the Impact of Industrial Zones on the Environmental Pollution in Hai Phong’s Coastal Areas, Vietnam
This study evaluated pollution impacts from industrial zones on coastal water quality in Hai Phong, Vietnam, measuring biochemical indicators across seawater, sediment, and marine organisms. The results document degraded water quality near industrial areas with implications for human health and marine ecosystem integrity.
Magnetic Particles Weight as an Indicator for Heavy Metals Concentration
Researchers tested whether the mass of magnetic particles in soil could serve as a proxy indicator for heavy metal contamination in urban environments. Magnetic particle content correlated with concentrations of lead, zinc, and other metals from traffic and industrial sources. While not focused on microplastics, urban heavy metal contamination often co-occurs with microplastic pollution from the same traffic and industrial sources.