A green sheet is the sign of an on-site storage unit. To avoid increasing radioactivity around these on-site locations, the contaminated soil is buried and then surrounded by sandbags, which ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a ...

When they mixed biochar into contaminated soil at a former tree nursery, DDT uptake by earthworms in the soil was halved. This method may enable the growing of certain crops on land that is ...

But there are still some areas off limits due to the radiation levels. And as contaminated soil piles up, former residents are wondering when, or if, they will go back. The cleanup work started ...

Many of the temporary storage sites for soil and waste contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are located in areas vulnerable to natural disasters ...

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