The patchwork efforts to identify and safely remove contamination left by the 2025 Eaton and Palisades fires have been akin ...

A cutting-edge test can now identify the source of feces faster and more accurately than previous methods. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald's on October 23, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn ...

A recent tomato recall over possible contamination of salmonella has received the highest risk level from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said. On May, 28, the FDA marked the tomato ...

Two groups independently found lead levels far exceeding 100 times the EPA limit within standing homes in the Eaton burn area. With little government and insurance support for testing, some residents ...

The Department of Defense will expand its investigation into the prevalence of "forever chemicals" in base drinking water systems and neighboring water supplies following the Environmental Protection ...

The sicknesses emerged one by one. First came heart problems and skin cancer in 2017. Then, within four years, Terry McClure was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, prostate cancer and lung cancer.

Nitrate contamination is endangering Wisconsin’s freshwater drinking supply, creating a public health crisis according to the Great Lakes.org. Exposure to nitrates can be extremely harmful and has ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas — Ranchers here say their cattle, fish and horses are dying and getting sick because of a fertilizer spread on nearby farmland. The fertilizer is made from treated human waste ...

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