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ClearEnvironmental and Health Effects of Emerging Contaminants –A Critical Review
Researchers reviewed the environmental and health effects of emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics commonly found in water and soil samples. The study suggests that these contaminants can cause endocrine disruption in exposed organisms and may contribute to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment.
Contaminants of emerging concern in agricultural soils: Current understanding, overlooked issues, and future priorities
This review synthesizes evidence on how contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and PFAS, enter agricultural soils, accumulate in crops, and affect ecological and human health. The study found that these contaminants pose complex risks including antimicrobial resistance and sublethal impacts on plant and soil systems, while highlighting critical knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
Impact of Major Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) on Soil and Associated Health Issues
This review examines how contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, and microplastics, affect soil health and pose associated risks to human well-being. Researchers found that these pollutants threaten soil fertility through mechanisms distinct from traditional contaminants, and their long-term impacts remain poorly understood. The study emphasizes the urgency of developing monitoring frameworks and remediation strategies for these emerging soil threats.
Emerging contaminants and their influence on plants: An in-depth review
This review examines how emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and nanomaterials accumulate in soil and affect plant health. The study found these pollutants can disrupt plant growth through various toxic mechanisms and persist in food webs, highlighting the need for effective mitigation strategies to protect crop productivity, soil health, and food security.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment. I. Sources, Accumulation, and Ecological Implications
This review characterized emerging pollutants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals, pesticides, nanomaterials, and microplastics in environmental compartments, focusing on their persistence and ecological implications. The paper analyzed how these pollutants accumulate in water, soil, air, and biota, disrupting reproductive health, metabolic functions, and biodiversity.
Current situation of organic pollution in farmland soil
This review examines organic pollutants in farmland soil — including pesticides, microplastics, plasticizers, and antibiotics — finding that their widespread use from agriculture, sewage irrigation, and industrial activities poses serious threats to crop quality, food safety, and human health.
Emerging Pollutants in Soil and Water: Sources, Risks, and Advances in Removal Technologies for Sustainable Management
This review provides a broad overview of emerging pollutants in soil and water, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics, examining their sources, environmental persistence, and potential health effects. Researchers evaluated various removal technologies ranging from conventional methods to advanced approaches like nanofiltration and bioremediation. The study emphasizes the need for integrated management strategies that combine multiple treatment methods to effectively address these widespread contaminants.
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.
Emerging Environmental Contaminats of High Concern: Trends, Potential Sources, Friendly Treatment Technologies and Future Prospects
This review examines sources, environmental behavior, and health effects of emerging environmental contaminants -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals -- along with promising treatment technologies for their removal from water and soil.
Environmental Fate of Emerging Organic Micro-Contaminants
This review covers the sources, fate, and toxicity of pharmaceuticals and other organic micropollutants in natural and built environments. It examines how these contaminants, which often co-occur with microplastics, persist in water systems and affect aquatic organisms.
Microbial ecosystem disruption under persistent organic pollutant stress: Consequences for soil biogeochemistry and environmental sustainability – A review
This review examines how persistent organic pollutants disrupt soil microbial communities and the nutrient cycling processes they drive. Researchers found that these chemicals cause diversity loss, suppress beneficial microbes, and impair the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soils. The study also explores how co-contamination with microplastics and heavy metals can produce compounding effects on soil health, creating risks for agricultural productivity and ecosystem stability.
Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks
This review examined five major categories of emerging contaminants in soils, including micro- and nanoplastics, PFAS, phthalates, flame retardants, and pharmaceuticals, assessing their potential health risks. Researchers found that these contaminants accumulate primarily in root-based food crops and show toxicity at very low concentrations in cell and animal studies. The study highlights that most of these pollutants lack environmental regulations despite their proven harmful effects on living organisms.
Recent advances on ecological effects of microplastics on soil environment
This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the ecological effects of microplastics on soil environments. Researchers found that soils serve as major sinks for microplastics, which can alter soil properties, affect plant growth, disrupt soil microbial communities, and interact with other pollutants. The study highlights that terrestrial microplastic pollution may be even more pervasive than aquatic contamination and warrants greater research attention.
Microplastic contamination in soil environment – a review
This review examines the sources, transport, degradation, and ecological impacts of microplastic contamination in soil environments. The study suggests that soil acts as both a major sink for microplastics and a conduit transporting them to aquatic systems, and that microplastics can negatively affect soil organisms and biogeochemistry, underscoring the need for more research on terrestrial microplastic pollution.
A critical review on interaction of microplastics with organic contaminants in soil and their ecological risks on soil organisms
This review examines how microplastics interact with organic pollutants in soil, including pesticides and industrial chemicals, and the combined risks they pose to soil ecosystems. Researchers found that microplastics can adsorb organic contaminants through various mechanisms and alter their movement, breakdown, and toxicity in soil. The combined effects on soil animals, plants, and microorganisms can be either synergistic or antagonistic, making risk assessment more complex than studying either pollutant alone.
A Review of Emerging Environmental Contaminants of Global Concern
This review covers major categories of emerging environmental contaminants including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing their sources, ecological effects, and detection methods. Recent advances in sensitive analytical techniques have accelerated the identification and monitoring of these pollutants.
Microplastics as Emerging Soil Pollutants
This review covers how microplastics enter and accumulate in soils, their effects on soil health, microbial communities, soil fauna, and plant growth, and the implications of widespread soil plastic contamination for ecosystem function.
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.
The role of soils in the disposition, sequestration and decontamination of environmental contaminants
This review examines the dual role of soil as both a source and sink for environmental contaminants, including microplastics, pesticides, and heavy metals. Researchers found that complex interactions between soil properties, contaminants, and biological processes determine how pollutants are transformed, stored, or transferred to water and air. The study highlights that understanding soil's role in contaminant cycling is essential for developing effective decontamination strategies.
A discussion of microplastics in soil and risks for ecosystems and food chains
This review examines how microplastics accumulate in soils through agricultural practices, landfills, and wastewater, posing risks to ecosystems and food chains. Researchers found that while marine microplastic pollution has been well studied, terrestrial contamination remains poorly understood despite soil receiving more plastic waste than oceans. The study highlights how microplastics can alter soil properties, harm soil organisms, and potentially transfer through the food chain to humans.
Occurrence of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Causes and Effects
This review defines and categorizes contaminants of emerging concern including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides, summarizing their sources, environmental occurrence, and potential treatment strategies.
Microplastics as an Emerging Environmental Pollutant in Agricultural Soils: Effects on Ecosystems and Human Health
This review examines how microplastics enter and move through agricultural soil ecosystems, affecting soil properties, nutrient cycling, and the organisms that live in and depend on healthy soil. Researchers found that microplastics can alter key biogeochemical processes and interact with co-existing pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides, potentially compounding their harmful effects. The study highlights the need for prevention and control strategies as microplastic contamination of farmland becomes an increasingly recognized environmental and potential human health concern.
The Fate of Chemical Contaminants in Soil with a View to Potential Risk to Human Health: A Review
This review summarizes how chemical pollutants in soil -- including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging contaminants like microplastics -- can reach humans through food, water, breathing, and skin contact. The paper explains that soil properties like acidity and organic matter content control how mobile and available these pollutants are, which is important for understanding actual human health risks from contaminated soil.
Effects of microplastics on the terrestrial environment: A critical review
This review summarizes what is known about microplastic contamination in land-based environments, covering sources, fate, and effects on soil and the organisms that depend on it. Microplastics in soil can interact with pesticides, heavy metals, and other pollutants, acting as carriers that move toxins through the food web and potentially up to humans. The authors note that compared to ocean research, the effects of microplastics on land ecosystems are much less studied and urgently need more attention.