In 2020, the City of Lausanne found that large areas of its soil had been contaminated with dioxins, which are chlorinated organic compounds. This pollution ... glucose our cells need to function." ...

Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

Last year, an international team announced a raft of promising materials for use in organic solid-state lasers ... Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are a standard treatment for many blood ...

In our TEMPEST test plots, we pump salty water from the nearby Chesapeake Bay into tanks, then sprinkle it on the forest soil surface fast ... on a decades-old air pollution law.

Step foot in South America, and you’ll find yerba mate everywhere — lining the shelves of gas stations and grocery stores, ...

For instance, pollutant has low bioavailability if it is tightly bound to soil organic matter or adsorb by soil aggregates ... and moisture content. Bacterial cells (the most populous among the ...

Even if our state did work to protect our farmland, as in Maine and Vermont, we New Yorkers are still drinking milk from other states and eating produce from other states. Cows that graze on land ...

Most lichens are very sensitive to air pollution ... fungal and algal cells before new lichens are created. Different lichen species can grow on many types of surfaces, including tree bark, dead wood, ...

Chemical crop fertilizers are responsible for environmental pollution all around the world. A more sustainable alternative would be to replace them with biofertilizers, which are substances that ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human ...

Soil incubation experiments revealed a comprehensive increase in CO2 release by drying-rewetting cycles (DWCs) among Japanese forests and pastureland soils, suggesting a significant contribution of ...