Science news articles about 'urban soils'

... Indianapolis, conducted a literature review of studies of urban soils as a persistent source of lead poisoning ... rural areas or newer cities. The blowing soil and dust young children ingest contains ...

... cycle disrupted by extensive pavement and compacted urban soils with low permeability. The lack of infiltration ... water quality downstream. Researchers know that urban forests, like rural forest land, ...

... is often focused on restoring the hydrologic cycle disrupted by extensive pavement and compacted urban soils, but now a group of researchers have been investigating innovative ways to maximize the ...

Chronic lead poisoning, caused in part by the ingestion of contaminated dirt, affects hundreds of thousands more children in the United States than the acute lead poisoning associated with imported ...