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Environmental Pollutants

Environmental pollutants are substances introduced into air, water, or soil that cause harm to organisms, populations, and ecosystems. They span several major categories: heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and chromium; persistent organic pollutants; pesticides and other agrochemicals; and excess nutrients that dis…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 11 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 39× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2637-6075 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Environmental pollutants are substances introduced into air, water, or soil that cause harm to organisms, populations, and ecosystems. They span several major categories: heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and chromium; persistent organic pollutants; pesticides and other agrochemicals; and excess nutrients that disrupt natural balances. Pollutants originate from both point and diffuse sources, including industrial discharge, agriculture, waste disposal, and contaminated sites such as dumpsites. Once released, many pollutants persist and move through environmental compartments, contaminating soils and water bodies and entering food webs. A defining ecological concern is bioaccumulation, the build-up of contaminants in individual organisms, and trophic transfer, by which substances become concentrated as they pass to higher levels of the food chain, exposing predators and humans to elevated burdens. Assessing these hazards is the focus of ecotoxicology, which evaluates the toxic effects of pollutants on living systems and establishes risk thresholds, such as minimal risk levels for cadmium, to guide protection. Research in this area examines heavy-metal contamination of soil and water, the toxicity of pesticides such as cypermethrin to fish, the environmental risks posed by dumpsites, and the use of metabolomics to assess organismal responses to environmental exposure. Together these approaches characterize sources, fate, and biological impacts to inform monitoring and risk management.

Research published in this journal

11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

The Use of Metabolomic Tool in Assessing Environmental Exposure

Polyana Rocha Mendes MicheleCorresponding author
Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Exact topic International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine doi:10.14302/issn.2690-0904.ijoe-21-3966

How this research is being cited

The 11 articles above have been cited 39 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant and Animal Ecology (ISSN 2637-6075).

Journal editorial board
Dimitris Zianis · Greece Jasmin Mantilla Contreras · Germany Narcisa Vrinceanu · Romania

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