Authorities in Ohio plan to test the water supply across a small village near a former weapons plant after a newspaper ...

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

Heavy metals in soil are slashing crop yields and polluting food supplies worldwide, affecting over 1 billion people, a major ...

After decades of watching their neighborhoods suffer from industrial contamination, residents of Houston's Fifth Ward and ...

Organic crop farmers may be missing out on a valuable source of data by not sampling and testing their soil for nutrients.

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 ...

A CHARRED hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.

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 ...