Authorities say arsenic levels in the Kok Thai river now exceed safety limits, sparking fears of ecological disaster ...

An NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a novel technique to significantly enhance the performance of cadmium telluride ...

While natural processes like erosion can release cadmium into the environment slowly over time, human activities like mining, manufacturing, and farming are the main ways cadmium is released into ...

or many of the metals released when mining for battery materials, such as cadmium, chromium, and cobalt. The study also can’t account for small-scale mining, which is often dirtier, and not ...

A research team from Central South University and Beihang University conducted a study in the Hunan Province, the heartland of China’s non-ferrous mining area, and found that urinary cadmium ...

“Industrial processes, mining activities, and the use of phosphate fertilizers, which often contain cadmium, contaminate soil over time. Plants, particularly certain crops like rice ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

Their work, detailed in a study published March 26 in the journal Environmental Pollution, sheds light on the ecological consequences of mining activities ... of mercury, cadmium, zinc, and ...

Cadmium is a carcinogen which is also toxic ... elevated levels if grown in soil that has been further contaminated by mining, industrial waste, and some pesticides and fertilizers.