Researchers found that up to 17% of cropland contains dangerous levels of heavy metals like arsenic and lead. The most ...

Global agriculture is facing a significant challenge. Scientists are sounding the alarm about soil pollution and the ...

Rapidly rising rates of heart disease across Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania are being driven by localized consequences ...

Nine out of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in South Asia. Concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in some of the region’s most densely populated and poor areas are ...

In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, providing comprehensive global analysis of urban ...

Every year between January and April, South-east Asia is plagued by smog from farmers lighting fires to clear land, emitting microscopic PM2.5 pollution that lines the lungs and enters the ...

Up to 1.4 billion people worldwide are affected by toxic heavy metal pollution and 17 per cent of arable land is contaminated, according to the study led by Hou Deyi, a professor at the School of ...

Every year between January and April, Southeast Asia is plagued by smog from farmers lighting fires to clear land, emitting microscopic PM 2.5 pollution that lines the lungs and enters the ...