Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...

Water sources can be polluted by heavy metals, complex organic compounds such as petroleum by-products or pharmaceuticals, radioactive isotopes and trace ... This helps Member States avoid and ...

by an industry with a record of contaminating the environment through radioactive waste leakage and water pollution that threatens Florida's groundwater resources. Now there are plans to tear up more ...

Sustained pollution can damage ... chemicals), hydrocarbons and radioactive substances released from industrial, agricultural, municipal and mining activities ultimately enter the marine environment ...

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station plans to drain radioactive water from two areas of the plant in April, leading to reduced ...