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 ...

Across the world, coastal regions and ecosystems are facing diverse environmental pressures from overexploitation, soil erosion ... their own unique challenges regarding marine pollution — to use ...

The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities for soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster. It is the fifth ...