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 ...

Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1.4 ...

Heavy metals and metalloids are elements that originate ... the authors systematically assessed global soil pollution for seven toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel ...

Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study ...

India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and ...

This widespread pollution threatens food security, ecosystem health, and public safety by reducing crop yields and ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires likely made polluted soils worse, but soil experts say bioremediation may be an alternative to ...

SOIL is not just dirt beneath our feet. It is the foundation of life. It feeds us, supports biodiversity and shapes human ...

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: ...