A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at ...

Some of the world’s leading rice-producing countries are sitting on a vast belt of pollution caused by heavy metal, according ... hundreds of studies based on soil samples taken from around ...

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals ... “Global soil pollution by toxic metals has been studied for decades,” the scientists stated.

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB ... Nagar were about 250 times the permissible limit. Other heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium, zinc, boron, and selenium were also found above ...

Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal ... Deyi Hou et al, Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health ...

Heavy metals and ... dataset of 796,084 soil concentrations from 1,493 studies, the authors systematically assessed global soil pollution for seven toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium ...

The growth in demand for critical metals means toxic heavy metal pollution in soils is only likely to worsen. “We hope that the global soil pollution data presented in this report will serve as ...

Soil pollution results from harmful compounds, like synthetic chemicals, heavy metals, pathogens, pesticides, micro-/nanoplastics (MNPs), and plastics, primarily from mining, industries ...

The heavy metals were seen in soils within two miles of a lithium ... and expensive process to do," Richard Stedman, air pollution control officer from the Monterey Bay Air Resources District ...

Now research has added another risk factor to the list: pollution ... suggest. Heavy metals are also inhaled in the form of PM2.5 particles. Today, rice from polluted soils is still the largest ...

The first thing to know is that “heavy metal” is something of ... distributing lead particles into the air and soil through car exhaust. Now industrial pollution is the leading source of ...

“The results, showing heavy metal contamination around this particular ... Scientists have used moss as a biological indicator of air pollution since the late 1960s. Moss data is an indicator ...