The eco-adjectives are everywhere, on everything: Earth-friendly, all natural, enviro-safe. "Biodegradable" was supposed to be different. So clinical. So reassuring. Bio means life. Degrade means to ...

We often think of plastic pollution as a problem of oceans and seabirds. But beneath our feet, in the quiet dark of agricultural soils, a new kind of contamination is unfolding—one with profound ...