“She’s got this. She’s a swimmer in water polo, this is a walk in the park for her,” Bibi Beltran, 52, told her husband Sunday afternoon on March 30, as the pair watched their 15-year-old ...

In one former mining town in Zambia ... shown to have elevated levels of lead poisoning. Decades of mining left some 6.4 million tons of lead-bearing waste behind in Kabwe. Kathy Short Reporter ...

Several years ago, the City of Ekurhuleni embarked on a mega-project to provide 3,510 desperately needed social housing units. This mega-project was set to provide modern living spaces for people ...

MISSOURI — From towns named after historical figures to local landmarks, the World Atlas spotlighted seven ‘quirky’ communities for their unique names. According to the World Atlas ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Hiroko Tabuchi has written extensively on contamination of farmland from fertilizer laced with toxic chemicals. The City of Fort Worth, Texas, is ending its contract with Synagro ...

A California surfer was left injured and shaken after a violent sea lion attack, which experts believe was triggered by a toxic algae bloom ... its mind warped by this poison coursing through ...

A person has been poisoned by bacteria after swimming in an infested Canterbury lake. Te Whatu Ora last week issued a warning about toxic blue-green algae in Lake Hood near Ashburton. National ...

Toxic algae blooms contain a neurotoxin that ... The sea lions are likely being poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin within the algae blooms, which they ingest through the fish they eat ...

Every year, they say children can swim and play in the reservoir without a warning in sight of how toxic the water may ... succinctly puts it, “[the town] has become a dungheap.” ...

Despite the risks and the stench, anyone can enter large swathes of the site and many earn a living scavenging the piles of hazardous waste in search ... from the town of Elbasan, tops the list ...