Soil pollution caused by both natural and human-induced factors threatens the lives of millions of people globally. The new study uses machine learning tools to detect their impacts on humans and ...

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many ...

Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1.4 ...

A study published in Science looks at global soil contamination by toxic metals. Dr Lucie Buchi, Senior Lecturer in Crop Ecology at the NRI, University of Greenwich, said: ...

Based on data from over 1000 regional studies combined with machine learning, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

As the problem of scammer gangs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, tapers off, another serious transboundary problem emerged with the ...

This is the second part of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous ...

Local and regional leaders in La Unión are rejecting a national plan to seal Portmán Bay, demanding a full environmental ...

The plaintiff is particularly concerned about the long years of oil pollution resulting from SPDC’s activities in the Niger Delta, terming the mining licence ... on the soil of Nigeria, as ...