Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many ...

Heavy metals in soil are slashing crop yields and polluting food supplies worldwide, affecting over 1 billion people, a major ...

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

“We hope that the global soil pollution data presented in this report ... Nickel, chromium, arsenic, and cobalt also exceeded thresholds in various regions, largely due to a mix of natural ...

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

the authors systematically assessed global soil pollution for seven toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead. The study found that cadmium in agricultural soil ...

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 ...

A study published in Science looks at global soil contamination by toxic metals. Dr Lucie Buchi, Senior Lecturer in Crop Ecology at the NRI, University of Greenwich, said: ...

Trump’s deregulatory agenda is putting Americans at risk and completely trampling on his vow to “Make America Healthy Again.” ...