Seventy percent of soils in Europe are contaminated with pesticides. A Europe-wide study co-led by researchers of the ...

In a study of small water bodies in Germany, pesticide contamination causes adverse effects to aquatic plants and ...

Nanomaterials can reduce accumulation of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury by 38% while increasing harvests by 23%, finds international research team led by UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – One of the ...

Initial choices about fertilization and grass seeding could have a long-lasting effect on how plants and their associated microbes break down pollution in petroleum-contaminated soils. Initial choices ...

Phosphorus is crucial for crop growth. But too little can lower crop yields, and too much can lead to pollution downstream.

Cadmium contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global concern, threatening food safety, crop productivity, and human health. New research shows that not all biochars work the same way and ...

For decades in Houston, where resident Bryan “Lucas” Parras grew up near the city’s shipping channel, neighborhoods have faced the cumulative impacts of toxic emissions. The area is crammed with ...

Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing on properties destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades ...