More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident scattered radioactive cesium-137 across Japanese farmland, ...

Heavy metal contamination of soil is one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and a new ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Partnering with community scientists, Rutgers researchers found that lead contamination in soil can create hazardous indoor conditions even in houses without lead paint ...

In 2020, the City of Lausanne found that large areas of its soil had been contaminated with dioxins, which are chlorinated organic compounds. This pollution was due mainly to combustion-reliant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leigh Adams, left, and Shawn Maestretti of Studio Petrichor both lost their Altadena homes in the Eaton fire, but their studio ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a major question about who pays for environmental damage, Eugene is working to clean up ...

Federal contractors are arriving to begin excavating contaminated soil from the wetland where the fighter jet crashed during ...