The management of copper smelting dust is a significant environmental and economic challenge in the mining industry. This dust often contains harmful elements like arsenic, which poses serious ...

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

One labourer was killed and another injured after a silo collapsed at a smelting plant in ... an iron structure used to store dust materials, collapsed, burying several workers who were at the ...

In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal later condensed as dust and settled onto the soil. “Silver was used for ...

Two labourers were injured and two others feared trapped after a silo collapsed at a smelting plant in Chhattisgarh ... an iron structure used to store dust materials, crashed, trapping under ...