Arsenic contamination thought to be from Myanmar mines prompts calls for urgent regional action and warnings of risks to local communities.

Researchers found that most fish sampled from Ghana’s Keta Lagoon had arsenic and mercury levels exceeding World Health ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

The supplement that's poisoning gym-goers has been exposed in shocking lab tests. The dangerous truth will make you think ...

A new real-time monitoring system captures minute-by-minute changes in toxic metals resulting from traffic pollution.

Just four months after Mongabay reported on a dramatic surge in diagnoses of respiratory illness near Indonesia’s ...

The major cause of heavy metals accumulation in crops is through the irrigation of contaminated water (particularly in Bangladesh as arsenic-contaminated groundwater is widely used for irrigation).

The National Green Tribunal has called for AIIMS, Delhi, to assess the alarming public health impacts of water contamination ...

Faecal contamination in Alice Springs’ groundwater is no cause for concern, one expert says, but he is supporting a key call ...

A new international report has raised alarms over the safety of one of the world’s most consumed staple foods — rice — ...

Secretariat is warning about a "moderately serious" situation following the detection of heavy metal contamination in the Mekong River, believed to have originated from poorly regulated mining ...

Tribunal takes serious note of presence of chromium, mercury, fluoride and iron in water in Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat and ...