Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

A review of tens of thousands of soil samples from Earth reveals high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the ...

Those tests found toxic heavy metals including lead, arsenic, cadmium and chromium, which can accumulate in the environment and pose risks to humans and wildlife, according to federal and state ...

YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN detox-fluencers peddling supplements, smoothies, and other methods to “detox” yourself (or your kids).

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

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found in a new study when ...

Plum Organics, Beech-Nut and other baby food companies said that California’s lead limit law permits them to average the ...

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It ...