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Michigan Will Pay $836 Million to Flint Water Crisis Survivors

Science & Health

9 months ago

Michigan Will Pay $836 Million to Flint Water Crisis Survivors

Yessenia Funes

More Toxic Lead Fell From Notre Dame Fire Than Originally Reported

Science & Health

10 months ago

More Toxic Lead Fell From Notre Dame Fire Than Originally Reported

George Dvorsky

Hundreds Of Bottles Of Toxic Beer Found Hidden Beneath Victorian-Era Staircase

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1 year ago

Hundreds Of Bottles Of Toxic Beer Found Hidden Beneath Victorian-Era Staircase

George Dvorsky

Archaeologists in Leeds, England discovered more than 600 beer bottles at the site of an old Victorian brewery. Stacked neatly beneath a cellar staircase, the beer inside these 19th-century bottles contains dangerous concentrations of lead.

These Toxic Chemicals Need To Be Banned By The U.S. In The Next 10 Years

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1 year ago

These Toxic Chemicals Need To Be Banned By The U.S. In The Next 10 Years

Yessenia Funes on Earther, shared by Brian Kahn to Gizmodo

Amazon Agrees To Stop Selling Children’s Products With Illegal Levels Of Toxic Metals

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2 years ago

Amazon Agrees To Stop Selling Children’s Products With Illegal Levels Of Toxic Metals

Melanie Ehrenkranz

Five Years After The Lead Crisis Began, Flint Residents Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

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2 years ago

Five Years After The Lead Crisis Began, Flint Residents Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

Yessenia Funes

Five years. That’s how much time has passed since the City of Flint switched its water source, exposing nearly 100,000 people to lead-tainted water. That crisis continues today and has traumatised the city in a way that will take more than another five years to fix. The legacy will likely…