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 was due mainly to combustion-reliant ...

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

Outside the mountain town of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain, an abandoned chemical factory stands on land still scarred by decades of Lindane production – a pesticide now banned worldwide – which left ...

A new mini-review finds that only metal immobilization and hydrocarbon rhizoremediation by cultured consortia have been field ...

Rapid industrialization and human activities have led to the widespread contamination of our planet's water and soil. A vast array of organic and inorganic pollutants, from heavy metals to pesticides ...