State researchers found above normal levels of four types of cancer in communities near a toxic waste site. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story.

While America has recognised that military burn pits used in Afghanistan can cause cancer and other illnesses in soldiers, Australia has not accepted it.

A hard scientific revelation this week, which should trigger concern and anger across our community. A comprehensive ...

Netflix’s new series "Toxic Town" follows three women whose children’s birth defects are linked to toxic waste from a steel mill. Here’s the shocking true story behind the show.

As much as 200,000 cubic yards of highly toxic waste was dumped into the pits and later eroded allowing for contaminants to leak into the San Jacinto River. In 2008, the site was added to the EPA ...

A new Netflix series explores one of the biggest environmental scandals in U.K. history — one that left dozens of children ...

An EPA investigation confirmed residents’ worst fears about operations at an industrial landfill. What happens next is all ...

Now there are concerns Australian soldiers have been affected, in a toxic legacy ... than 200 open air pits on its military bases across Iraq and Afghanistan to burn waste. Former US secretary ...

The aforementioned waste pits, which contain cancer-causing chemicals called dioxins, were built in the 1960s to store hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill. They were added to the ...