heavy metals, Tag

A new study by Consumer Reports found that some of the popular dark chocolate brands contain high levels of heavy metals. The study was carried out by scientists from the nonprofit advocacy organization, sampling 28 well-known...

A genetically engineered version of the fungus in your bread and beer could help clean up the environment. A team of seven scientists at institutions in Romania and Norway developed yeast that could clean up heavy metal pollution...

Fidget spinners are having a moment - practically everywhere you go someone has one twirling on a fingertip or tucked into a pocket. But environmental activist Tamara Rubin recently tested a variety of spinners for lead and...

We don’t often think about whether there are toxins in the plants around us – those are natural, right? Yet researchers in Portland, Oregon made an unsettling discovery: common tree moss in the area contained heavy metals...

And you thought we were just running the world out of oil. Ha. Think again. All around you are rare elements from the Earth. LCD screens have a bit of indium; LED’s, lasers, semi-conductors and the solar industry use gallium,...

Combining pollution cleanup, green energy, and recycling, a new project in the U.K. investigates the potential of using algae to clean up an old mine site, while producing both  biofuels and metals for electronics at...

Bioremediation can refer to the use of microbes, fungi (mycoremediation) or plants (phytoremediation) that have the ability to remove pollutants from the environment...