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 ...

Heavy metals in soil are slashing crop yields and polluting food supplies worldwide, affecting over 1 billion people, a major ...

This widespread pollution threatens food security, ecosystem health, and public safety by reducing crop yields and ...

The increasing contamination of soils by heavy metals, such as copper and lead, poses significant ecological risks.

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: ...

Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study ...

This diagram outlines the process used to identify the top 20 metabolites associated with oxidative potential (OP) in heavy ...