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Health risk assessment of heavy metal(loid)s in park soils of the largest megacity in China by using Monte Carlo simulation coupled with Positive matrix factorization model

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Sustainable in situ remediation of recalcitrant organic pollutants in groundwater with controlled release materials: A review

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Synthesis of MgO-coated corncob biochar and its application in lead stabilization in a soil washing residue

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Lead contamination in Chinese surface soils: Source identification, spatial-temporal distribution and associated health risks

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Engineering whole-cell microbial biosensors: Design principles and applications in monitoring and treatment of heavy metals and organic pollutants

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How does soil pollution risk perception affect farmers' pro-environmental behavior? The role of income level

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Integrated Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Agricultural Soil in China

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Simultaneous immobilization of the cadmium, lead and arsenic in paddy soils amended with titanium gypsum

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Examining the impacts of urban form on air pollutant emissions: Evidence from China

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Apportionment of sources of heavy metals to agricultural soils using isotope fingerprints and multivariate statistical analyses

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Soil Pollution Management in China: A Brief Introduction

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Green and Size-Specific Synthesis of Stable Fe–Cu Oxides as Earth-Abundant Adsorbents for Malachite Green Removal

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A meta-analysis of potential ecological risk evaluation of heavy metals in sediments and soils

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Recent developments in modification of biochar and its application in soil pollution control and ecoregulation

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Arsenic mobilization and nitrous oxide emission modulation by different nitrogen management strategies in a flooded ammonia-enriched paddy soil

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Spatial distribution of lead contamination in soil and equipment dust at children's playgrounds in Beijing, China

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Nitrogen cycle induced by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria drives “microbial partners” to enhance cadmium phytoremediation

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Climate change mitigation potential of contaminated land redevelopment: A city-level assessment method

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Sustainable Remediation in China: Elimination, Immobilization, or Dilution

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Assessing pollution and health risks from chromite mine tailings contaminated soils in India by employing synergistic statistical approaches

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Energy, economic, and environmental impacts of sustainable biochar systems in rural China

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Influence of groundwater table fluctuation on the non-equilibrium transport of volatile organic contaminants in the vadose zone

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Risk evaluation of biochars produced from Cd-contaminated rice straw and optimization of its production for Cd removal

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Efficacy of nitrate and biochar@birnessite composite microspheres for simultaneous suppression of As(III) mobilization and greenhouse gas emissions in flooded paddy soils

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Study on the effect of the environmental protection industry and investment for the national economy: An input-output perspective

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An emerging market for groundwater remediation in China: Policies, statistics, and future outlook

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Assessment of the heavy metal contamination using GIS-based approach and pollution indices in agricultural soils from Beni Amir irrigated perimeter, Tadla plain, Morocco

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Elucidating the impact of goethite-modified biochar on arsenic mobility, bioaccumulation in paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) along with soil enzyme activities

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Organic Farming Improves Soil Microbial Abundance and Diversity under Greenhouse Condition: A Case Study in Shanghai (Eastern China)

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Right on target: using plants and microbes to remediate explosives

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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Agricultural Productivity: From the Perspective of Digital Transformation

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Current inventory and changes of the input/output balance of trace elements in farmland across China

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The remediation of PAH contaminated sediment with mangrove plant and its derived biochars

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PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN A NATURAL AND AN AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW

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Resilient remediation: Addressing extreme weather and climate change, creating community value

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Comparison of nickel adsorption on biochars produced from mixed softwood and Miscanthus straw

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Arsenic stabilization performance of a novel starch-modified Fe-Mn binary oxide colloid

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Analyzing Mega City-Regions through Integrating Urbanization and Eco-Environment Systems: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

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Using Industrial Sewage Sludge-Derived Biochar to Immobilize Selected Heavy Metals in a Contaminated Calcareous Soil

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Soil metal(loid)s pollution around a lead/zinc smelter and source apportionment using isotope fingerprints and receptor models

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Assessment of remediation of soils, moderately contaminated by potentially toxic metals, using different forms of carbon (charcoal, biochar, activated carbon). Impacts on contamination, metals availability and soil indices

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Catalytic Degradation of Diatrizoate by Persulfate Activation with Peanut Shell Biochar-Supported Nano Zero-Valent Iron in Aqueous Solution

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Structural equation modeling of PAHs in ambient air, dust fall, soil, and cabbage in vegetable bases of Northern China

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The effect of sepiolite application on rice Cd uptake – A two-year field study in Southern China

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Alkanolamines-activated steel slag for stabilization/solidification of heavy metal contaminated soil

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Remediation status and practices for contaminated sites in China: survey-based analysis

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Establishment of an integrated decision-making method for planning the ecological restoration of terrestrial ecosystems

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Historical and future trends of cadmium in rice soils deduced from long-term regional investigation and probabilistic modeling

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Biochar and sustainable development goals

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Emissions and Atmospheric Dry and Wet Deposition of Trace Metals from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources in Mainland China

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Biochar-based fertilizer enhanced Cd immobilization and soil quality in soil-rice system

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A remote sensing analysis method for soil heavy metal pollution sources at site scale considering source-sink relationships

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