With the continuous expansion of industrial and agricultural activities, the contamination of water bodies and soils by heavy ...

Kobe University scientists found why pumpkins and zucchini absorb soil pollutants. Their discovery could help grow safer food ...

Pumpkins, squash, zucchini and their relatives accumulate soil pollutants in their edible parts. A Kobe University team has ...

Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water.

Scientists and community members in Altadena are testing ways that California species can assist efforts to rebuild ...

Researchers mapped lead contamination in Chicago’s soil and the results are alarming.

The Santa Barbara City Council approved a $4.7 million budget adjustment for the new downtown police station after ...

Nanoscience can offer solutions, not only problems, to environmental challenges, addressing pollution and enhancing ...

An environmental committee of New Mexico lawmakers learned Wednesday that progress is underway to clean up a contaminated former crude oil refinery in Bloomfield, moving the site closer to plans to ...

A microscopic protein twist explains why pumpkins soak up pollution, and how they might one day help remove it.

A $2 million lawsuit claims city consultants drastically understated contamination at the Great Park and stalled on change ...

The Navy, which operated at the shipyard from 1945 to 1974 and is responsible for cleaning the 500-acre shipyard on the ...