If your garden has ever looked “fine” one week and then started twisting, stalling, or producing weirdly bitter harvests the next, it’s easy to blame weather. But a growing number of gardeners are ...

It’s a number thousands of Palisades and Eaton fire survivors have come to depend on: 80 milligrams of lead in each kilogram of soil. Below this concentration, California has historically deemed yards ...

This story, a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Grist, is the third in a soil lead-contamination series that began at Grist (read parts one and two). Reporter Yvette Cabrera has ...

A research team has successfully developed and tested a solar-powered artificial plant that can rapidly purify soil contaminated with radioactive cesium. The innovative device, which mimics a plant’s ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source as public officials and the company ...