PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Results from a soil study are showing the significant impacts of decades of industrial contamination at Willamette Cove. The site, on the east side of the river just north of ...

The 145 soil samples were obtained from citrus orchards (26), vineyards (29), and vegetable gardens (90) and range in crop types, 48 of which were from leafy vegetables, 4 from brassicas, 9 from ...

The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the ...

Federal officials are working to clean up soil contamination in Laureldale Borough. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

This story, a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Grist, is the third in a soil lead-contamination series that began at Grist (read parts one and two). Reporter Yvette Cabrera has ...

For more than a century, factories spewed toxic dust across the city, contaminating the soil and causing lead poisoning. We ...

EWA BEACH, Hawaii (Island News) – The U.S. Marine Corps is collecting hundreds of soil samples around the Pu'uloa Range Training Facility with the help of scientists and Ewa Beach community members.

Soil pollution refers to the dangerously high concentrations of contaminants in soil. While contaminants such as metals, inorganic ions, salts, and organic compounds naturally occur in soils, these ...

A team of UCLA researchers has screened nearly 700 soil samples for hundreds of Los Angeles County residents concerned about contamination in their yards and gardens, part of a growing effort to ...

A new study by an independent environmental research group, Toxics Link, claims to have identified high levels of lead contamination in four North Indian states.