In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

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

Each contained at least eight heavy metals. One in particular — Phos-Chek LC-95W — had “potentially alarming” concentrations of several metals, including chromium, cadmium and vanadium, he ...

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

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many as 1.4 billion people reside in areas with soil dangerously polluted ...

Dangerous levels of heavy metals are in the store-bought rice fed to children and families, a new report finds. Juanmonino/iStockphoto/Getty Images Agriculture Pollution Federal agencies Food & health ...

Even if early Earth had water and oxygen, the planet would still have needed another ingredient for life to flourish: heavy metals. Our cellphones, Earth’s core and even human metabolism would ...