The assurance has come amid fierce protests by locals in Pithampur against the state government's plan to dispose of the waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.

The wildfires of the past two weeks will leave Los Angeles with an unprecedented environmental catastrophe that will linger for years, experts say, from the toxic ash settling in backyards and ...

IT WAS a mammoth task that took 40 years to get started. Four days of repacking, weighing and loading of 337 metric tonnes (MT) of hazardous waste, 40 workers deployed in 30-minute shifts, 12 ...

But it leaves behind a legacy of toxic waste, including a growing accumulation of arsenic trioxide whose exact size is undisclosed. In its 2023 annual report, DPM reported net earnings of about US ...

“My 5-year-old son, wife, dog and I don’t want to be living in a toxic wasteland.” As residents start returning to neighborhoods ravaged by fire, they are contending with a slew of toxic ...

“No child should have to go to school next to a toxic waste site, but a generation of Greenpoint children will unless an alternate location for a future school is found,” reads a 2019 petition ...

1:36 Toxic metals in vapes linked with major health problems in youth, study finds Depending on the level of exposure, lead and cadmium have been found to cause various health issues, including ...

Meanwhile, the talks are generating a mix of intrigue, fear and mistrust around the state. On the next episode of Toxic Waste or Economic Fuel?, we ask northwest Colorado residents living in cities ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic substance its citizens will ever have to deal with. Moreover, there is a lot of ...

A 2023 study by researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency found that emission factors for some toxic compounds were more than 1,000 times higher in urban wildfires than in fires that ...

Why urban wildfire smoke and ash is more toxic Traditional wildfires burn mostly biomass, such as trees and shrubs. Wildfires like the ones currently burning in Los Angeles occur in what’s known as ...

“It’s just stuff.” Or, perhaps worst of all: “You should make a gratitude list.” This is toxic positivity, and according to Yvonne Thomas, a Los Angeles-based psychologist specializing ...