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

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

It took 174 years to clean up the mess made by a handful of extractive industries at Superfund site Chequamegon Bay, a place ...

Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, ...

An Egyptian movie star who rose to fame in the 1950s planted the seeds of one of Cairo’s best kept secrets: the Mazhar ...

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast ...

Environmental science unifies the disciplines of natural sciences (biology, chemistry and physics) with behavioural sciences and fields such as oceanography, zoology, anthropology or geography.

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: ...

Vietnam's degraded ecosystems and dioxin-contaminated soils and waters still reflect the long-term ecological consequences of ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...