Nitrate, pesticides, metals, plastic -- agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and climate-friendly ways to restore and promote soil health in agricultural land? Yes, ...

Opposition to the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer is growing across the country. While the practice has been happening for ...

Mar. 3, 2025 — The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades, a ...

State and local agencies are taking action, 14 months after neighbors raised alarms about the pit, which is leaking into Ryan Creek.

Levels of phosphate - a form of river pollution which comes from animal and human waste, among other things - are high in the Somerset Moors and Levels. Large quantities of phosphates in rivers ...

Pollution-related deaths numbered 1.67 million in 2019, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers. Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, ...

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

Before President Nixon created the EPA in 1970, water and air pollution weren't federally ... like before we cared what we put into the air, soil, and water. In the San Francisco Bay, raw sewage ...

Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas. Plastic pollution can alter habitats and ...

A large source of Colorado’s water pollution is abandoned mine waste, which Salidan Jason Willis, director of Trout Unlimited ...

Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that ...