Based on data from over 1000 regional studies combined with machine learning, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas ...

Nearly one fifth of the world's agricultural land is contaminated by toxic metals, posing a serious threat to food security, ...

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

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions ...

When wildfires reach sites contaminated with high levels of arsenic, the extreme heat can cause any biomass or soil to emit that arsenic to the wider environment. But just how much arsenic gets ...

Rules imposed under Biden “were inconsistent with Clean Air Act and based on an improper analysis of data, says president of ...

The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

A new study linked soil and water pollution to the human health crisis of global heart disease, according to News Medical ...

Government officials, local authorities, health professionals, and civil society are gathering today at the second global conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia. As ...

Brown rice contains more nutrients than white rice, but also higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a known health risk. A US ...

Boston College has established the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to track efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution-related diseases that account for an estimated 9 million ...

Published just ahead of World Water Day by WWF and GlobeScan, The Future Water Agenda: How water can lead the way for sustainability and collective action details the top global concerns, with water ...