High concentrations of mercury represent a big risk to the environment due to the high toxicity of this metal. One of anthropic sources of up-ground environmental mercury contamination is mining industry. ...

The success of phytoremediation (especially phytoextraction) and phytomining depends heavily on the bioavailability of target elements, which, among others, is a function of soil mineral phases, soil organic ...

There is a number of commercially valuable elements whose concentration in the crust of the earth is too low for an economic mining with traditional approaches. However, phytotechnologies which take advantage ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) represent a number of economically valuable elements whose increasing demand is closely associated with rapidly growing high-tech sectors such as high-tech electronics and "green energy ...

In the formation of phytocoenoses on the reclaimed coal dumps the processes of self-growth by species most tolerant to conditions of acidification and salinization of soils play an important role. Besides, naturally ...

All over the world, industrial mining is leaving contaminated areas and dumps that, although being full of valuable metals, have high concentrations of toxic heavy metals that pollute the environment. The ...

Silvicultural upgrading of sewage sludge is an alternative to current solutions. It presents a lower risk of contamination of the human food chain than its use in agriculture. In this context, the use of forest plantations ...