Arsenic contamination of soils presents severe risks to human health and ecosystems, primarily due to the high toxicity and mobility of arsenite [As (III)]. While arsenate [As (V)] is less toxic ...

Organic rice baby cereal, rice breakfast cereals, brown rice, white rice—new tests by Consumer Reports have found that those and other types of rice products on grocery shelves contain arsenic ...

The Method for Removing Arsenite and Arsenate from Water comprises reacting the water with cupric oxide (CuO) particles for a predetermined time and filtering the reacted water. This technology can be ...

A VALLA Beach conservationist has renewed concerns that logging in Little Newry State Forest is disturbing arsenic deposits ...

In late 2012 we released our original report on arsenic in rice, in which we found measurable levels in almost all of the 60 rice varieties and rice products we tested. Our most recent testing ...

A research team led by Prof. LUAN Fubo from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of ...

Scientists are questioning the validity of a high-profile paper that claimed to have discovered a strain of bacteria from Mono Lake, California, that can use arsenic in place of phosphorus in its DNA ...

Groundwater contamination by arsenic and uranium is a severe environmental and public health concern, linked to cancer, kidney damage, and other chronic diseases. Conventional remediation methods ...

Rice consumption is on the rise in the UK, with a whopping 150 million kilogrammes eaten in 2015. In addition, many of us also enjoy rice cakes as healthy snacks and choose rice drinks as an ...

A study has uncovered a novel approach to detoxifying toxic arsenic in contaminated soils, offering hope for tackling one of the world's most pressing environmental health challenges. The research ...

Synergistic Mechanism of Arsenic Detoxification by Goethite and Arsenic-Oxidizing Bacteria (SY8). This figure illustrates the synergistic mechanism by which goethite (Goe) and arsenic-oxidizing ...