Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the soil of urban centers across the United States. One in every two American ...

Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington state. Then the EPA canceled ...

A recent study published in the journal Atherosclerosis reviewed the links between water and soil pollution and human health. Clean water and healthy soil are essential to human health, well-being, ...

Nanoplastics are an increasing threat to the ecosystem; however, their mobility in the soil is still underexplored. Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation ...

Experts say that the world’s farms are being quietly contaminated — and the push for clean energy may be adding dangerous metals to farmland. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed an elegant strategy to counteract a lack of phosphate in the soil—they form symbiotic relationships with soil fungi. These mycorrhizal fungi ...

Widespread pesticide contamination across Europe is threatening the essential soil fungi that plants rely on Atrazine, once one of the most-used herbicides in the world, has been banned in Switzerland ...

Contamination at Trainsong Park off Highway 99 in Eugene is more extensive than first believed, with testing showing ...