North Carolina farms use treated sewage sludge as fertilizer, but concerns over PFAs contamination are growing. With few disposal alternatives, regulators and farmers face tough choices.

If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

Move comes 40 years after the world's worst industrial disaster which occurred when a highly toxic gas leaked from Union ...

Four decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, chemical waste from the Union Carbide factory is being unloaded for incineration in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, leading to protests and health concerns.

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on new methods that are turning mountains of old clothes into rack-ready garments amid growing ...

As electronic waste (e-waste) piles up globally, researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of ...

The process of unloading 337 tonnes of hazardous waste, transported from the Bhopal-based defunct Union Carbide factory in ...

Scientists have found methods to convert plastic waste into valuable chemicals. One approach breaks plastics into olefins for ...

Twice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst ...

Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose no threat, but residents are worried ...

The government is considering charging industrial unit owners for water usage and will categorise industries based on water ...