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

Soil pollution caused by both natural and human-induced factors threatens the lives of millions of people globally. The new ...

India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and ...

A review of tens of thousands of soil samples from Earth reveals high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the ...

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 fact, a study published in the Journal of Royal Society of Medicine revealed that if lung cancer in non-smokers was ...

These flowers contain traces of the chemicals in the soil and water ... Average arsenic and cadmium concentrations in Manchester were higher than global averages. Cadmium and lead concentrations were ...

These include substances such as banned azo dyes, formaldehyde, pentachlorophenol, cadmium, nickel, lead, and numerous other harmful chemicals. This is the world’s leading textile ... water and soil ...