For decades, the standard way to judge whether a polluted soil is dangerous has been to ask how many individual species can tolerate the contaminant in question. Toxicologists compile laboratory thresholds for earthworms, plants, and other soil-dwelling organisms, fit a cumulative curve to the values, and read off a hazardous concentration that protects some chosen […]
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