Air pollution might protect against the most dangerous type of skin cancer, melanoma, a new study finds. However, it's ...

Researchers collected soil and ash after the 2020 wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Chemical tests suggested that ...

The announcement appeared to confirm a report by France's nuclear safety institute which detected a cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe. The Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety ...

The IAEA is working with experts from all over the world to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its partners, the IAEA is researching and ...

Officials at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution ...

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Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...

Studies suggest this fungi is a powerful bioremediator, meaning it can be used to remove radioactive pollution from the environment. Cleaning up radioactive sites like the CEZ is both challenging ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - In a class action filed Thursday in a California state court, current and former residents of the decommissioned nuclear training site on San Francisco’s Treasure Island claim ...

However, concerns are rising about the effects of radioactive pollution from a Cold War-era submarine. The submarine, K-278 Komsomolets, sank nearby in 1989. Its leaking reactor has caused ...

and add to pollution caused by the bombing of oil infrastructure. 'Depleted uranium [is] a radioactive, toxic material. No state would ever accept exposure in peacetime' - Wim Zwijnenburg of the ...