In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

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This week’s rainstorms in Southern California resulted in debris flows and mudslides, especially in the areas near last month ...

Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals ...

A year later, at the onset of Andrew’s illness, I was a fellow at Harvard University studying trends in mortality and life ...

The red rose: a token of love for many, and for Kenya, a major economic sector. More than a third of Kenya's flower exports where the roses, in particular, are prized for their longevity and vase ...

Alburquerque says the mining can be highly contaminating, and was the reason why in 2002 a major rare earth element mining ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles can greatly increase how much toxic chemicals enter plants and human cells.

Although located close to each other, the two springs have very different chemical conditions. Octopus Spring has much higher ...

A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.

Microbial life in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life's exploitation of oxygen, ...

The Sarandí canal in Argentina turned blood red last week. Officials suspect a toxic substance used in dyes has entered the ...