Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

North Carolina farms use treated sewage sludge as fertilizer, but concerns over PFAs contamination are growing. With few disposal alternatives, regulators and farmers face tough choices.

Love Canal became one of America’s worst environmental disasters. Learn the full story and why it still matters today.

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Near the ruins of the Los Angeles fires, a new battle has been emerging over how to dispose of the toxic waste left behind.

Blind spots are scary. You back down the driveway and find you’ve crushed an unseen bike, and realize with thumping heart that instead it could have been a child. You start through a crosswalk and ...

Here are the landfills that could take toxic waste from the L.A. wildfires in the coming weeks — many have not accepted ...

Experts acknowledge residents’ concerns, but say hazardous waste is not necessarily harmful as long as safety measures are in place and the waste is not stored on site for years. At a town hall ...

The story started with a call from a professor at UC Santa Barbara who had found something during an unrelated underwater research mission. From that tip, ...

where criminal organisations have been dumping and burning toxic waste for decades. The ruling, issued on Thursday, found that the government had failed in its duty to address the crisis despite ...