In what's often called the world's worst industrial disaster, a 1984 chemical accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, unleashed a toxic gas that killed thousands of people over subsequent ...
In 1980, two children and 29 crew members aboard a grain freighter became ill. They had been exposed to phosphine – a chemical used in fumigation to kill pests in and on grain – for four days. In the ...
Radon levels tend to be highest during the colder months, when doors and windows stay closed. People in most Pennsylvania counties, including the Philly suburbs, are particularly at risk.
Residents of the Rawalpindi Cantonment area are grappling with serious health and environmental hazards as dirty drain water and sewage have seeped into gas pipelines. The contaminated, toxic sludge ...
A "dangerous fugitive," who had been traveling up to 100 mph and erratically in a stolen vehicle before causing a head-on crash in Antioch, has been sentenced to four years in prison.