Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

An Italian research group has designed an innovative approach for removing heavy metals from contaminated soils. 1 They found that by combining hemp plants with spirulina, a type of dried blue-green ...

Urban gardening is on the rise in cities across America. But in so-called legacy cities like Buffalo, where lead and other contaminants have seeped into the soil over decades of heavy industry, it can ...

Lead contamination remains a serious problem. Though lead has been banned from paint since 1978 and leaded gasoline was phased out in the 1990s, lead paint chips remain buried in urban and suburban ...

Assemblymember John Harabedian is introducing new legislation that would create statewide science-based standards for the ...