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, ...

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Arsenic. Lead. Mercury. Oh my.

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Other sites showed no increase in heavy metals on the soil surface. Regardless, the bottom line is that the concentration of metals measured were within normal ranges for all soil types evaluated.

Exports of fruit and vegetables fell by 10.5% year-on-year in March to an ... for cadmium and auramine O residues at accredited laboratories. Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal and auramine O is an ...

vegetables, because those things are grown in our soil and irrigated by our water, grown in our air," Kordas said. "Fundamentally, those are the sources of heavy metals: soil, water, and air." ...

The materials include base metals aluminium, copper and nickel, along with key battery material lithium and rare earth elements used in permanent magnets for wind turbines or in electric vehicles.

The prospect of setting up mining operations in space holds the potential for enticing rewards of rare metals that can’t be easily found on Earth. However, these projects face an uphill climb.

You have to try." Following a further launch next year, the company plans to develop ways to mine near-Earth asteroids for the valuable, concentrated metals some contain – particularly the ...