Md Ahosan Habib, Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam, Memet Varol, Khamphe Phoungthong, Rahat Khan, Md Saiful Islam, Md Hasanuzzaman, Md Yousuf Mia, Romulus Costache, Subodh Chandra Pal
Toxic metal(loid)s (TMLs) in agricultural soils cause detrimental effects on ecosystem and human health. Therefore, source-specific health risk apportionment is very crucial for the prevention and control of TMLs in agricultural soils. In this study, 149 surface soil samples were taken from a coal mining region in northwest Bangladesh and analyzed for 12 TMLs (Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Zn, Cu, As, Se, and Hg). Positive matrix factorization (PMF) and absolute principal component score-multiple linear regression (APCS-MLR) receptor models were employed to quantify the pollution sources of soil TMLs...
August 30, 2023: Environmental Geochemistry and Health