Coastal Restoration

Russian investigators said Saturday they were looking into “a possible ecological catastrophe” in the eastern Kamchatka region.

It’s an electronic message that biologists hate to see. Something was apparently wrong with one of the mountain lions being tracked in the Santa Monica

After months of pressure from state legislators and public health advocates, the decision avoids a fight in the fall on an initiative that would have blunted a state court ruling that made Sherwin-Williams and ConAgra liable for lead-paint cleanups.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination. Th

The homeless living in an Oxnard Superfund site will soon be forced off the property as police plan an eviction operation this week.

A chemical industry insider now has a top job at the EPA and is rolling back rules on toxic chemicals. Is safety being compromised?

Air district staff detected total chromium near metal processing facilities in Compton, but say this doesn't indicate whether the cancer-causing compound is present.

Mad hatters, gold, clocks — and a dangerous cumulative toxin.

The recent news of a beached sperm whale in Davao should alarm everyone with its theorized cause of death. The 38.8 foot male was found in front of a resort in Babak, Island Garden City of Samal last Saturday. An autopsy report by Darrell Blatchley of D'Bone Collector Museum revealed that the cause of death…

A new generation of scientists have uncovered barrels containing DDT, a toxic pesticide banned decades ago, dumped into the deep ocean.

These deaths mark the fifth and possibly sixth cougars in a National Park Service study to be killed by rat poison.

A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man’s lawyers said.

The L.A. River’s recreation zones are opening for the summer months. And some are tepid about the water. Officials say it’s safe; just don’t swim in it.

Three years after the closure of the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, only 270 lead-contaminated properties have been cleaned — most of them years ago in two small areas closest to the facility. And while residents wait, delays keep mounting.

Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on parts of Houston. Scientists are now trying to identify contaminants spread by the storm, including those in mud at the bottom of the Houston Ship Channel.

The levels of mercury in the Oslofjord cod has increased over the last 30 years, despite reduced emissions of this toxic element. In the same period, the average size of sampled cod has increased. Are the elevated levels of mercury simply a result of larger cod?

Pennsylvania State University scientists analyzed images of impacted and non-impacted deep sea corals to characterize their symbiotic relationship with brittle stars and determine if brittle stars influenced coral recovery from the Deepwater Horizon spill.