The images of swaths of garbage floating on the oceans’ surface have become a rallying call to address plastic pollution, but there is more to this challenge than meets the eye.While plastics and ...

Nanoplastics are an increasing threat to the ecosystem; however, their mobility in the soil is still underexplored. Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation ...

This is worrying, as there hasn’t been a lot of research into the impacts of soil pollution, so its effects might be more widespread than we know.” “Amid concern over soil degradation, we need to ...

Meanwhile, heavy-metal pollution in soil has been expanding in densely populated eastern China, compared with samples collected in the 1990s, according to Xinhua. Advertisement But some analysts ...

A mainland environmental group has published China’s first soil pollution map to pinpoint pollution sources and gauge the public health and other safety risks that it says the government has yet ...