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, ...

A Jersey Shore environmental group says damage from decades of toxic waste dumping at one of America's most notorious pollution sites caused $1 billion worth of damages. Trees are reflected in the ...

When the wind blows the wrong direction, Esther Calhoun can smell it. Calhoun’s home is often downwind from the Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama, a site that accepted toxic coal ash in the ...

A new environmental lawsuit puts a spotlight on what critics describe as Ohio’s dangerous love affair with fracking, highlighting how the state’s permissive regulations have allowed toxic waste to be ...

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The fumes that wandered into Martha Beatriz León’s preschool on the outskirts of Tecate, Mexico smelled way worse than usual, like rotting garbage. Or maybe it was ammonia. One woman compared it to ...

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 ...

Along with other environmental issues, the world is currently facing a serious issue of rapidly increasing electronic waste, as technology is advancing faster than ever. From old mobile phones and ...

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TOMS RIVER, N.J. – Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental ...