One of the world's largest facilities to clean contaminated soil has opened in Farmingdale, beginning a new chapter of soil recycling to address the ground pollution that has plagued Long Island.

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 ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to clean up PFAS-contaminated soil at Eielson Air Force Base. The chemicalused in firefighting foams has been linked to serious health problems. And ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Tony Schick / OPB/EarthFix Millions of acres of farm and orchard land in the United States have been converted to residential uses. In some cases, old pesticides could still be in the soil, even from ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Urban gardening is on the rise in cities across America. But in so-called legacy cities like Buffalo, where lead and other contaminants have seeped into the soil over decades of heavy ...

A research team led by Professor Kim Seong-gyun of the Department of Chemical Physics at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) said on the 16th that it developed a ...