More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked eye. Microplastic pollution of the soil poses a severe threat to soil health ...

Illnesses related to chemical pollution of the soil, water, and air are responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths annually, which equates to 16% of all global deaths; half of these ...

Fossil fuels don’t just drive climate change - they fuel disease, cancer, and early death, making pollution a global health ...

Tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found.

Our current environment has a few issues, and many of these appear to be deteriorating with time. This has brought humans into a period of a serious environmental crisis. Consequently, increasing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Heavy metals, pesticides and microplastics in the soil and water are not only environmental and ecological ...

MITCHELL — Roughly 50 miles southwest of Augusta, a tractor hitched to a large tank sat idle in a field off Edgehill-Mitchell Road in rural Glascock County. A half-dozen vultures pecked at the ground, ...