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

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 ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

After more than 25 years of cleanup, the state Department of Environmental Quality recently announced that the groundwater ...

They say your pudding will spoil your tea, but it turns out cream cakes could also save the salmon in your sandwiches. Waste ...

Fu Junsheng collects plastic that washes up on China’s Miaodao islands and turns it into art that highlights the problem of marine pollution.

The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical seagrass, despite the growing threats posed by climate change. Led by Fee Smulders from ...

Water Matters Europe's water is under increasing pressure. Pollution, droughts, floods are taking their toll on our drinking water, lakes, rivers and coastlines. Join us on a journey around Europe ...