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ReviewToxics2026

From Legacy Contamination to Green Infrastructure: Heavy Metal, Microplastics and Nutrient Pollution Management in the Yangtze River Basin.

Shu Cao, Ping Wang

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Review in Toxics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shu CaoGraduate College, Mudanjiang Normal University, Mudanjiang 157000, China.
Ping WangFaculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.

Funding

2021 Annual Heilongjiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Research Planning Project 21FXE283Heilongjiang Province General Project of Higher Education Teaching Reform Research SJGYY2024246Key Project of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Higher Education Institutions in Heilongjiang Province 1355ZD019Research on the Legal Mechanism of Horizontal Interest Compensation in Resource-Based Regions 21YJA820002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Yangtze River Economic Belt supports over 400 million people and contributes nearly half of China's GDP, yet decades of industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural intensification have resulted in severe contamination and pressing environmental challenges. This systematic review synthesizes three decades of peer-reviewed and governmental data to examine the spatiotemporal distribution, sources, and ecological and human health risks of major pollutants, including heavy metals, microplastics, persistent organic pollutants, and excess nutrients. While point-source emission of heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, and mercury have decreased by 35-42% since 2013 following policy interventions like the 10-Point Water Plan and the Yangtze River Protection Law, legacy contaminants in sediments and diffuse agricultural inputs continue to pose significant risks. Cadmium levels in rice still exceed food safety standards, arsenic in groundwater surpasses health guidelines, and microplastic flux into the East China Sea has reached 8.3 × 10

Indexed as

AI-driven monitoringheavy metal contaminationmicroplastic pollutionphytoremediationsustainable watershed governanceYangtze River Basin

Identifiers

PMID42198532
PMCPMC13211577

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