Save Soil: Phytoremediation to Restore Nepal’s Contaminated Soils

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  • Swastik Ghimire School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, United States
  • Tek Narayan Bhattarai Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
  • Shukra Raj Paudel Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal

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https://doi.org/10.63095/NBSEH.25.293237

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Published

2025-06-06

How to Cite

Ghimire, S., Bhattarai, T. N., & Paudel, S. R. (2025). Save Soil: Phytoremediation to Restore Nepal’s Contaminated Soils. Natural Built Social Environment Health, 1(3), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.63095/NBSEH.25.293237

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2025): Volume 1 Issue 3 2025

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Letters to the Editor

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