Heavy Metals and Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic and Soil Environments: Migration, Transformation, Ecological Risks, and Remediation
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Toxicity Reduction and Environmental Remediation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: potentially toxic elements; emerging contaminants; migration and transformation; distribution characteristics; risk assessment; pollution remediation; soil; water; sediment
Interests: aquatic toxicology; aquaculture biomarkers; oxidative stress; environmental contaminants; risk assessment
Interests: toxic element; migration and transformation; risk assessment; ecological remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heavy metal pollution is a severe environmental problem across the world, stemming from complex and diverse sources. Heavy metals pose a pollution risk in environments due to their toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation, and resistance to degradation. Emerging contaminants such as antibiotics, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and persistent organic pollutants share many of these characteristics. With changes in how contaminants manifest and their migration and transformation between different media, they could have a greater impact on the ecological environment, even presenting potential health risks to the human body through pathways such as the food chain. Current management strategies for heavy metals and emerging contaminants have garnered significant attention across all sectors of society. However, many challenges still persist regarding their impacts on aquatic and soil environments, including their migration, transformation, ecological risks, and remediation. In this Special Issue, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The risk and migration of heavy metals and emerging contaminants in aquatic and soil environments.
- The control of heavy metals and emerging contaminants in wastewater.
- The remediation of heavy metals and emerging contaminants in ecosystems.
- The prevention and control of regional heavy metal and emerging contaminant pollution.
- The control of composite heavy metal and emerging contaminant pollution.
Dr. Xiaoshuai Hang
Dr. Yingang Xue
Dr. Jian Cui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metal
- air
- soils
- water
- sediment
- environmental behavior
- human health
- migration and transformation
- pollution remediation
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