New Advances in Heavy Metal Pollution
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 March 2023) | Viewed by 11222
Special Issue Editor
Interests: stress caused by exposure to heavy metals; arsenic and other toxic environmental pollutants in eukaryotic microorganisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heavy metals and metalloids, such as arsenic, are highly toxic and persistent environmental pollutants. They are present in the atmosphere, the Earth's crust and water masses, and can also accumulate in biological systems. As a direct consequence, environmental pollutants cause a serious hazard to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and are a major problem for all living beings. In recent years, exposure to these pollutants has been of increasing importance and has become a major public health and environmental pollution problem. Chronic exposure to heavy metals in humans through food, water, inhalation of contaminated air or direct contact exposure in an occupational context is increasingly common.
For this Special Issue of IJERPH, we invite submissions that examine the problems caused by heavy metal pollution, its impact on living beings and its environmental consequences, including manuscripts that focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of toxicity, as well as studies that describe strategies of resistance to these environmental pollutants and their potential biotechnological interest.
Dr. Silvia Díaz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metal
- metalloid
- environmental pollutants
- arsenic
- essential and non-essential heavy metals
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