Indigenous groups see hope in the environmentally friendly process of bioremediation. But will cities pay attention? It almost looked like a garden. In Taylor Yard, a former railyard near downtown Los ...

Mycoremediation in the wake of wildfires In the summer of 2020, a catastrophic fire in central California raged for 38 days, destroyed nearly 1,500 buildings and burned more than 86,000 acres of land.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon’s “Chernobyl” ...

Fifteen years ago, Danielle Stevenson, former urban agriculture coordinator in Victoria, British Columbia, set out to help the city’s public schools establish vegetable gardens. It was an exciting ...

Dear EarthTalk: How is it that fungi can help clean up contaminated soils? – M. Sharpe, Canton, CT Like animals, fungi derive energy by breaking down large molecules into smaller compounds. They do so ...