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 ...

Understanding E-Waste, Health Risks, and Sustainable Alternatives. The prevalence of toxic chemicals in headphones and consumer elec ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gene-altering chemicals found in humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising alarm they may end up in human food chain ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia unprepared to safely handle ...

Valerie Tyson was the first member of Concerned Citizens of West Badin to address the crowd gathered in the park. “We are so thankful for each and every one of you for coming so far and showing love ...

Fungus is usually a good sign of things going bad. But it can also indicate good things happening to very bad stuff. For Audrey Speyer, founder of PuriFungi, seeing fungi blooming on cigarette butts ...

A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently ...