Mercury persists in fish across Middle Georgia rivers. Growing power demand and regulatory delays may slow progress, keeping advisories in place.

A new Virginia law is looking to give parents some peace of mind with stricter regulations for baby food products.

This metal can exist in all three states as a liquid, a vapor and a solid. And this toxic substance might be lurking inside ...

A new law goes into effect on Jan. 1 that requires companies to test baby food for toxins and make those results available ...

The country’s biggest lithium mine has residents of McDermitt skeptical. The town straddles the Nevada-Oregon border and has a history of pollution.

They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they are gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, ...

Controversial Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized Sunday for her role in the nation’s “toxic politics” and said she would do things differently going forward in hopes others would ...

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), in collaboration with the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL), have identified high levels of toxic substances in plastic toys sold in Brazil.

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

Mercury is a naturally occurring, silvery-white heavy metal that is liquid at room temperature. It conducts electricity, expands evenly with heat, and bonds easily with other elements. Because of ...

A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by ...

PHOENIX– One 3-point shot by Phoenix Mercury center Kathryn Westbeld with 6:15 left in the fourth quarter and a seven-point lead might not have seemed that big of a deal. But it mattered more than ...