10 Toxins Found in 90% of Indoor Dust Samples
We're surrounded by toxic chemicals, and even holing up in our meticulously kept homes may not save us, Time reports. Ten chemicals that may be hazardous to our health were found in over 90% of indoor...
View ArticleIn Deepest Part of Ocean, 'Sky High' Pollution
At the deepest spot in the ocean, scientists have found beer cans, plastic bags, a tin of Spam, and now tiny crustaceans contaminated with toxic chemicals banned nearly 50 years ago. The "extraordinary...
View ArticleHurricane Harvey's Toxic Impact Wasn't Fully Disclosed
More than a half-year after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast, the extent of the resulting environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long-term consequences...
View ArticleWhat New York Residents Fear Is Old and Underground
Residents of a historic New York City neighborhood have two fears—toxic mercury and over-development—and they're combined at the former site of a 19th-century factory, the New York Times reports. South...
View ArticleFinally, Cause of City's 'Stench of Death' Is Revealed
In early October, residents in Carson, Calif., started picking up on a noxious smell emanating from the Dominguez Channel, with dozens of complaints called in daily to the South Coast Air Quality...
View ArticleForever Chemicals Invade Orcas—and Their Fetuses
Researchers say they're "shocked and saddened" to have discovered toxic chemicals, including "forever chemicals," in the bodies of killer whales, including endangered southern resident orcas, whose...
View ArticleEPA Takes Over Ohio Spill Cleanup, Warns Railroad
The EPA on Tuesday took control of the toxic cleanup of a train derailment in Ohio and ordered Norfolk Southern to pay all the costs, reports NPR . If the railroad balks, the federal agency threatened...
View ArticleEast Palestine Derailment Killed Almost 45K Fish, Animals
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says no land animals died in the Feb. 3 derailment of a train carrying toxic chemical in East Palestine—but it was a different story in the local waterways,...
View ArticleAfter Odor Sickened His Family, He Set Up a Hidden Camera
A Florida man suspicious about chemical smells in his home that appeared to be making his infant sick installed a camera to see if he could suss out what was going on—and now his neighbor is accused of...
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