Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

Rivers in Corby, home to Britain’s worst toxic waste scandal, are polluted with metals that could pose a risk to aquatic life ...

Rule protects cashiers, shoppers, families from hormone-disrupting chemicals; New data show many major retailers have already restricted bisphenols nationwide By banning all bisphenols in receipts, ...

Five-gallon plastic pails holding a toxic chemical linked to cancer sat for years on the shelves of a fire department in south-central Wisconsin. Finally, in a heralded statewide cleanup, they were ...

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township in Michigan about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a ...

In Summary Somalia shifts from policy to implementation in chemical safety and hazardous waste governance Nation nears ratification of the Bamako Convention to protect coastlines and communities Calls ...

On warm nights Arieann Harrison used to sit and chat with neighbors on the steps outside her apartment down the street from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a federal Superfund site. Trucks would ...

40 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in 12 trucks, the toxic waste finally leaves the city. At around 9.05pm, 337 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal finally left on ...

In Summary Residents in Fort Jesus, Kibera live next to informal dumpsites where waste is burned almost daily, exposing ...

Amidst protests of the Opposition Congress that incinerating the 337 metric ton toxic waste of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy at Pithampur near Indore would have long-term adverse effects on people’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five toxic waste ...