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

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

Global agriculture is facing a significant challenge. Scientists are raising alarms about soil pollution and the infiltration ...

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals ... “Global soil pollution by toxic metals has been studied for decades,” the scientists stated.

Some of the world’s leading rice-producing countries are sitting on a vast belt of pollution caused by heavy metal, according ... hundreds of studies based on soil samples taken from around ...