In 2020, researchers and members of the tribe demonstrated that hemp plants had success removing some of these stubborn toxins from the soil. Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.

In 2011, hundreds of farmers in Puglia, Italy, started testing the theory, planting hemp in a long-term effort to clean up fields disastrously polluted by a massive steel plant.

Phytoremediation of toxic soil and water dates back to the 1970s. As researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture began visiting farm plots ravaged by fertilizers, they noticed that some ...

Scientists grew plants in three samples of lunar soil brought to Earth by the Apollo missions, but the seedlings reacted as they would in cases of, for example, high salt or metal content.

It was a difficult moment. I had walked into our greenhouse on a July day, and where there should have been rich, dark brown earth, all I could see was plastic spread out over the ground. Instead ...

The (NCCISMA) offroad vehicle (ORV) outreach project has entered its third year — promoting vehicle decontamination with Ride ...

The dreaded red, itchy rash of poison ivy can turn a pleasant gardening session into a miserable ordeal. But what if you could banish this pervasive plant from your yard permanently, without resorting ...

The renewable energy transition will require a huge amount of materials, and there are fears we may soon face shortages of some critical metals. US government researchers think we could rope in plants ...

The plants not only collect the soil’s minerals into their bodies but seem to hoard them to “ridiculous” levels, said Alan Baker, a visiting botany professor at the University of Melbourne ...

Soil contamination is one of the major issues in the agriculture industry. These compounds are toxic, can inhibit seed germination, reduce plant growth, yield and also accumulate in seeds and ...