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

Others—including arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead—are toxic even at low concentrations. Some are left behind by natural ...

Snow storms in the northern Rockies are depositing metal contaminants from mines in the Pacific Northwest, according to new research.

Newmont Mining, which operates Red Chris in partnership ... north and south of the tailings facility and an additional cadmium seepage plume has been identified in the South Valley shallow aquifer.” ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to assess harms to endangered species before nearly tripling the levels of ...

Mayumi Ishizuka from Hokkaido University), measured the concentration of lead, cadmium, and zinc in the blood samples collected from 504 residents in the Kabwe mine area to investigate the respective ...

These contaminants—arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others—may be invisible ... They settle into soils through mining, factory emissions, fertilizers or contaminated water. When crops grow, they ...