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Geogenic Arsenic Exposures in Drinking Water and Impacts on Human Health

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( NIGRA  et al. , 2025 ) Exposure to Low Levels of Arsenic in Public Drinking Water Linked to Lower Birthweight, Preterm Birth (Stephanie BERGER, Columbia University - Irving Medical Center ; June 17, 2025) https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/exposure-low-levels-arsenic-public-drinking-water-linked-lower-birthweight-preterm-birth Featured Research Article: Public Water Arsenic and Birth Outcomes in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort (NIGRA et al. , 2025) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835321#250399059 Also... ( MARTINEZ-MORATA  et al. , 2022 ) Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium (MARTINEZ-MORATA et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35185-6 Websites : Arsenic, Inorganic (IRIS Toxicological Review; Final Report, 2025;  US EPA) https://iris.epa.gov/document/&deid=363892 Arsenic and Drinking Wa...

Quantifying Heavy Metal Contaminants in Agricultural Soils using Picosecond Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy (CF-Ps-LIPS) - Al Khanka City, Egypt

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Map of Al-Khankah, Egypt,  Weather-forecast.com ;  Link Calibration-free picosecond LIPS for quantifying heavy metals in soils near Egyptian industrial sites (EL-SAEED et al., 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04395-5