The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. The Niger Delta is a very densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. The delta ecosystem contains one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity on the planet, with four ecological zones: coastal barrier islands, mangrove swamp forests, freshwater swamps, and lowland rainforests. The delta is a petroleum-rich region and the advent of oil production has negatively impacted the Niger Delta due to unprecedented oil spillage. The region is one of the most polluted in the world. The heavy contamination of the air, ground and water with toxic pollutants is often used as an example of ecocide due to extensive pollution (gas flaring, dredging of larger rivers, oil spillage) and environmental degradation in a land where fishing and farming are the main sources of livelihoods for majority of residents.
2024. AP Onyena, OM Folorunso, N Nwanganga, GJ Udom, OC Ekhator, C Frazzoli, F Ruggieri, B Bocca, OE Orisakwe. Engaging One Health in heavy metal pollution in some selected Nigerian Niger Delta cities: a systematic review of pervasiveness, bioaccumulation and subduing environmental health challenges. Biological Trace Element Research.
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2023. GJ Udom, C Frazzoli, OC Ekhator, AP Onyena, B Bocca, OE Orisakwe. Pervasiveness, bioaccumulation and subduing environmental health challenges posed by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): A systematic review to settle a one health strategy in Niger Delta, Nigeria. Environmental Research 226: 115620.
2023. Okoye EA, AN Ezejiofor, IL Nwaogazie, C Frazzoli, OE Orisakwe. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils and vegetations of Niger Delta, Nigeria: Ecological Risk Assessment. Journal of Toxicology 2023:8036893. doi: 10.1155/2023/8036893.
2022. Okoye EA, AN Ezejiofor, IfyL Nwaogazie, C Frazzoli, OE Orisakwe. Heavy metals and arsenic in soil and vegetation of Niger Delta, Nigeria: Ecological Risk Assessment. Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 6, 100222.
2022. Amadi CN, B Bocca, F Ruggieri, AN Ezejiofora, G Uzaha, JL Domingod, J Rovirad, C Frazzoli, OE Orisakwe. Human dietary exposure to metals in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria: Health risk assessment. Environmental Research, 207:112234.
2022. Paul SN, Frazzoli C, Sikoki FD, Babatunde BB, Orisakwe OE. Natural occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) from mining sites in Nigeria: a systematic review of geographical distribution and public health concern. Journal of environmental radioactivity. J Environ Radioact 4;249:106889.
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2021. Okoye EA, B Bocca, F Ruggieri, AN Ezejiofor, IL Nwaogazie, JL Domingo, J Rovira, C Frazzoli, OE Orisakwe. Metals pollution of soil, plants, feed and food in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: Health risk assessment through meat and fish consumption. Environmental Research, 198:111273.
2021. Okoye EA, B Bocca, F Ruggieri, AN Ezejiofor, IL Nwaogazie, JL Domingo, J Rovira, C Frazzoli, OE Orisakwe. Concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in samples of soil, feed and food collected in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria: A probabilistic human health risk assessment. Environmental Research, 202:111619.
2010. Orisakwe OE, Frazzoli C (Autori ed Editori). Water supply in Niger Delta of Nigeria: from public protests to scientific discourse. NOVA Science Publisher, Inc., NY, Series: Water Resource Planning, Development and Management. ISBN 978-1-61728-618-6.