Tag: soil contamination

Spanish researchers have validated a new analytical protocol that reliably extracts and identifies microplastics as small as 50 micrometres in ...

A new study of soils around four industrial estates in Neyshabur, Iran, finds nickel levels exceeding safety guidelines and a ...

A Nigerian study finds that manure from battery-cage chickens carries far more copper, cadmium and manganese into soils and edible ...

A study of soils around an open-cast coal mine in Talcher, Odisha, shows that tin and gallium are the most ...

A new study of giant African land snails in Abidjan shows that soil metal contamination does not translate predictably into ...

A laboratory simulation of Ukrainian battlefield soils shows that microbes accelerate the corrosion of exploded weapons residue, releasing pulses of ...

Desert ants and darkling beetles act as sensitive living bioindicators of industrial heavy metal pollution through measurable shifts in their ...

A global review warns that industrial waste is contaminating productive farmland with heavy metals, PFAS and microplastics that enter food ...

A meta-analysis of 151 studies shows that soil pH and cadmium levels determine whether soil amendments or low-accumulating wheat varieties ...

A new review synthesizes decades of research showing that woodlice accumulate heavy metals in their hepatopancreas at extraordinary concentrations, making ...