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

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: ...

In the late 1990s, a powerful trapping agent together with the water stabilizer we ... companies in the nonferrous metal industry, alleviating heavy metal pollution. In the following 20 years ...

they can also be intensified by past industrial uses and pollution. Fortunately, the Food and Drug Administration tests for heavy metals in our food—but water can make things a little more ...

Using water contaminated with lead, chromium, copper, zinc, and cadmium, the researchers steeped the teas anywhere from a few seconds to 24 hours. They then compared the contamination amounts from ...

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It ...

A study by Northwestern University reveals that tea can filter out heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and chromium from water ... is reducing [people’s] metal intake by a very small amount ...

The heavy metal, which bioaccumulates at all levels of the food chain ... while between 33% and 56% of the pollution is released by phosphate fertilizers. The EPA is required to set water-quality ...

In a precedent-setting decision, a federal judge ruled late Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Endangered Species Act in 2016 when it failed to assess harms to endangered ...