A recent report raised concerns that it contains high levels of the heavy metal. Here’s what that may mean for your health.

W hile food provides essential nutrients, certain items can also contain trace metals—some of which are harmful when consumed in excess. Heavy metals like lead, mercury, cadmium ...

The L.A. County Department of Public Health is offering its final free community blood testing event Friday to screen victims ...

Introduction Illegal mining, especially artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), has proliferated across many developing ...

Around 19 tonnes of soil containing residual toxic waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has been incinerated and reduced to ashes at a disposal plant in Madhya Pradesh’s Pithampur ...

A product used on farms across New York, produced at a facility in Chateaugay, was nearly banned for use on agricultural land ...

Despite crores of rupees being spent, there exists no mechanism in place to safely process or dispose of the sludge, which ...

Researchers are tracking multi-drug resistant bacteria in South Africa’s water to see how it endangers food safety when it’s ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

Reconnaissance sampling by DY6 Metals at the Central Rutile project in Cameroon has identified further visible natural rutile ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.