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ClearA 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.
Soil Contamination, Risk Assessment, and Remediation
This review covers soil contamination from various sources including agrochemicals, waste materials, and emerging pollutants like microplastics, along with methods for risk assessment and remediation. Researchers examined how human activities such as farming, waste disposal, and industrial practices contribute to soil pollution and disrupt soil fertility. The study emphasizes the need for comprehensive risk assessment frameworks that account for the complex interactions between traditional and emerging soil contaminants.
Soil Pollution Status, Sources and Control Methods in China
This review examined soil pollution sources, status, and control methods in China, covering industrial activity, agriculture, and urbanization as primary drivers of contamination. The paper discussed how soil pollution degrades agricultural output, contaminates water, and affects air quality, and surveyed available remediation strategies.
Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook
This review assesses the state of soil pollution across the European Union, finding that contamination from heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants like microplastics is widespread but poorly monitored. The authors call for standardized measurement methods and updated regulations, noting that soil pollution can affect human health through contaminated crops and drinking water.
Soil Microplastic Pollution and its Remediation: An Overview
This overview reviews the scope of microplastic pollution in soils globally, summarizing contamination sources, effects on soil ecosystems, and available remediation strategies including physical, chemical, and biological approaches to address this emerging environmental problem.
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.
Remediation Strategies for Soil and Water
This review examines remediation strategies for soil and water contaminated by industrial pollutants, surveying physical, chemical, and biological approaches to address the growing challenge of environmental decontamination driven by rapid global industrial development.
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.
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.
Contaminant removal processes from soil
This review examines physical, chemical, and biological remediation approaches for soil contaminated with inorganic and organic pollutants and heavy metals, comparing chemical soil washing against phytoremediation and discussing the trade-offs between remediation efficacy, scalability, and environmental impact across different contamination scenarios.
Microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems: Global implications and sustainable solutions
This review examines microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems, an area that has received far less attention than ocean plastic pollution despite soil being a major sink for these contaminants. The study covers how microplastics interact with other soil pollutants, affect plant growth and soil health, and discusses both policy solutions and practical removal methods to reduce the amount of microplastics that enter the food chain.
Integrated Monitoring, Remediation and Management of Soil Pollution: A Comprehensive Review
This research review summarizes the latest methods for finding, cleaning up, and managing polluted soil that can harm human health through contaminated food and water. The study highlights that newer pollutants like microplastics and "forever chemicals" (PFAS) are especially hard to remove from soil using traditional cleanup methods. The authors argue that we need better, combined approaches to monitor and clean up soil pollution to protect our food supply and health.
Microplastics in soils: A comprehensive review
This comprehensive review summarizes what is known about microplastics in soil, covering their sources from agriculture, household waste, and industry, as well as how they move through and accumulate in different soil types. The review finds that current methods for measuring soil microplastics are inconsistent, making it difficult to accurately assess the true scale of contamination and its risks to food safety and human health.
The Effect of Microplastic Pollution on Soil, Plants and Soil Microbes and Its Remediation
This review summarized evidence for microplastic effects on soil properties, plant growth, soil microbes, and food safety, identifying microplastic pollution as a significant emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems. The authors also reviewed bioremediation and physical removal strategies as potential remediation approaches.
The interplay between soil pollution, insect biodiversity and soil health: A comprehensive review
This review examines how soil pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and organic contaminants affect soil insect populations and broader ecosystem health. Researchers found that these pollutants cause both direct harm to insects through toxicity and reproductive impairment, and indirect harm by degrading habitats and altering soil properties. The disruption of insect-driven processes like nutrient cycling leads to cascading effects that reduce agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience.
A review of microplastics in soil: Occurrence, analytical methods, combined contamination and risks
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in soil ecosystems, covering sources, detection methods, and ecological impacts. Researchers found that soils are major reservoirs for microplastics, and the study highlights how combined contamination with other pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides may amplify risks to soil organisms and food safety.
[Adverse Effects and Underlying Mechanisms of Soil Microplastics on Crops and Its Preventive Strategies].
This review summarizes the pollution status of microplastics in agricultural soils and their adverse effects on crops, including mechanical damage, oxidative stress, and genotoxicity leading to disrupted plant growth and metabolism. Researchers also examined how hazardous substances released from microplastics and contaminants adsorbed onto their surfaces contribute to soil ecosystem harm. The study identifies source control and biodegradation as the most promising strategies for reducing microplastic risks to crop production.
Soil pollution and remediation: emerging challenges and innovations
This perspective reviews emerging challenges in soil pollution, including contamination from heavy metals, pesticides, PFAS, and microplastics, all worsened by urbanization and climate change. Researchers highlight innovative monitoring and remediation technologies, such as advanced sensors, bioremediation, and machine learning approaches for predicting contamination patterns. The study emphasizes the need for sustainable, integrated soil management strategies to protect environmental health.
How microplastics are destroying soil and human health
This review examined how microplastics harm soil health — disrupting soil structure, water retention, microbial communities, and nutrient cycling — and how soil degradation translates into risks for human health through food and water contamination. It argues that soil microplastic pollution deserves equivalent attention to aquatic contamination.
Imperfect but Hopeful: New Advances in Soil Pollution and Remediation
This review examines recent advances in understanding and remediating soil pollution, acknowledging that while progress has been made, current approaches remain imperfect and require continued innovation. Researchers synthesized findings across chemical, biological, and physical remediation strategies, highlighting promising developments alongside persistent limitations in treating complex contaminated soil environments.