The Science study, led by Chinese scientist Deyi Hou and his colleagues, is one of the most comprehensive mapping efforts of heavy metals in agricultural soil. By combining recent advances in machine learning with an expansive dataset of 796,084 soil concentrations from 1,493 studies, the authors systematically assessed global soil pollution for seven toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead.
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