persistent organic compounds (including pesticides and industrial chemicals), hydrocarbons and radioactive substances released from industrial, agricultural, municipal and mining activities ultimately ...

Scientists present a promising material for addressing iodine pollution and recovering iodine resources from seawater.

IFL Science reports that Karachay is "the most radioactive lake on Earth ... and groundwater pollution. The Kyshtym Disaster - significant nuclear incident in 1957 IFL Science points out that ...

Highly radioactive nuclear waste: how to keep it from oblivion. ScienceDaily . Retrieved March 26, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250306123320.htm ...

Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...

In fact, indoor air pollution is now recognized as a serious ... Radon (a cancer-causing radioactive gas) is a problem for many homes, both with and without basements. Bacteria and mold can ...

Officials at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution ...

The Mashpee Select Board approved adding a nonbinding ballot question to voters that would urge Holtec International to stop evaporating radioactive wastewater.

Landfill has poisoned communities with radioactive waste for over a decade, causing serious environmental and health impacts ...