Tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found. A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the UK placed radishes ...

Soil contamination poses a serious threat to both the environment and public health across Europe. In the SOILPROM project, ...

It is a real problem: Microplastic particles are everywhere. Now a team has developed a method that allows it for the first time to precisely localise microplastic particles in the soil. The 3D ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb these particles and whether they end up in food has so far been difficult to ...

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

In agriculture, large quantities of nano- and microplastics end up in the soil through compost, sewage sludge and the use of mulching foils. The plastic particles always carry various pollutants with ...