A recent study published in the Science of the Total Environment Journal reviewed the use, characteristics, and potential risks of agricultural plastics (APs). Study: Agricultural plastics as a ...

Forests store microplastics carried in from the air. These particles accumulate in soils through rain, leaf fall, and ...

Heavy soil sealing combined with insufficient retention and infiltration (seepage) potentially increases the risk of ...

Michelle Sigler, graduate of the Advanced Inquiry Program at Chicago Zoological Society–Brookfield Zoo, addresses the effects of plastic pollution on aquatic wildlife and describes several cutting ...

Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

The president wants to weaken limits on tailpipe pollution. Scientists say it’s driving climate change and taking human lives “every day.” By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington President Trump ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China must show patience in its "long war" against widespread soil pollution, the environment ministry said this week, with the country facing a clean-up bill that could reach as ...