A Texas A&M project collected soil samples across cancer clusters in Greater Fifth Ward and published results for heavy ...

In 2023, at the insistence of the Citizen Advisory Group and Missoula County, the EPA sampled wells on the mill site for contaminants that hadn’t been assessed before, including PCB congeners and ...

Researchers with Texas A&M found higher than expected amounts of lead in soil in the Fifth Ward of Houston, which has been ...

The FDA began testing for elevated lead levels in ground cinnamon following more than 460 cases of reported lead poisoning in ...

Study results showed the highest detectable concentrations of heavy metals were lead, barium and chromium. All samples except for lead had less than or the same levels expected for an urban area. The ...

Houston, like many American cities, has areas with soil contaminated by non-biodegradable and persistent pollutants such as arsenic, lead, nickel and ...

The study, published in September, showed toxic levels of heavy metals like barium, chromium and lead detected in soil in ...

USFS-approved wildfire suppressants dumped nearly a million pounds of toxic metals into the West U.S. Here's how researchers found out.

First-of-its-kind research found fire retardants released by planes contain heavy metals concentrations up to 2,880 times ...

The widespread use of certain chemical or synthetic fire suppressants may be leading to heavy metal contamination in wildfire ...

In fire-prone areas, water isn't the only thing used to quell blazes. Wildland firefighters also apply chemical or synthetic suppressants. Researchers explored whether these suppressants could be a ...

A team of researchers have tested several wildfire suppressants, estimating that these materials have released approximately 850,000 pounds of toxic metals into the  environment in the Western United ...