(Photo: Getty) This high-risk zone results from a combination of natural geological factors, such as metal-rich bedrock and volcanic activity, along with anthropogenic influences including mining ...

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 ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

A new study linked soil and water pollution to the human health crisis of global heart disease, according to News Medical ...

Exposure to air pollution could be contributing to a mental health crisis, scientists from Harvard warn. The researchers, from the college's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed emergency ...

The studies focused on WtE plants in Paris (France), Harlingen (Netherlands), and Zubieta (Spain), identifying widespread pollution. Dioxin concentrations in soil, moss, and backyard chicken eggs ...

Plants can reduce pollution to some degree, but at home you would need large numbers of house plants, cared for under optimum conditions (including with ideal potting soil, ideal temperature and more ...

In the township of Makandanyama, near the old mining grounds, she explains, it is impossible to escape the pollution. That 2018 report noted that soil samples taken from near her home were "highly ...

Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe's Andøya Spaceport ...