The fact these chemicals are contaminating Maine’s deer meat in the Fairfield area is an eye-opening reminder of just how extensive this problem is.
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Kirby Corp. has agreed to pay $15.3M in damages and other costs to resolve federal and state pollution claims from a 2014oil spill that closed the Houston Ship Channel... 
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Jason Burns says inside a burning building, turnout gear keeps firefighters safe — but the gear itself, treated with PFAS chemicals, is unsafe.
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One of the firm's barges spilled about 4,000 barrels of oil into the waterway in 2014.
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It’s unclear how much oil spilled into the water, but dead fish have washed up onshore and the river’s surface was slick with rainbow-tinted sheen.
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In the past decade, there have been eight of the worst wildfire weather years on record. According to recent research, the world's eight most severe wildfire weather years happened in the previous decade, suggesting that catastrophic fire weather is caused by a drop in atmospheric humidity and...
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Officials say wildfires have killed thousands of giant sequoias this year -- a staggering loss after last year’s fires ravaged the population.
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Extensive efforts were made over the weekend and early this week to hold back floodwaters in Abbotsford, B.C., including the use of a Tiger Dam along Highway 1.
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Forecaster says some rivers could still cause moderate floods in area hit by extreme weather this month...
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With some of the world’s worst fire years happening in the last decade, Canadian scientists say severe wildfires are part of a “new reality”...
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The evidence is clear: Climate change is turning forests into scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S. after wildfires.
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Based on the information ATSDR has reviewed, current drinking water sources meet all federal and state guidelines...
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The contamination caused by decades of spreading sludge from paper mills and wastewater plants does not stop with the farm fields it was spread on.
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High winds, months of drought and record temperatures fueled wildfires in central Montana this week that burned thousands of acres. Dozens of homes, grain elevators and bridges have been lost. MTPR’s Shaylee Ragar talked to some of those impacted by the fires.
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For decades, PFAS, the group of so-called “forever chemicals,” have been used to make ultra-fast wax that’s prized by cross country skiers. The industry is slowly trying to wean itself from the wax. But it will still be allowed at a big national-level race in Duluth this weekend.
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In a paper published in the National Science Review, a team from Tsinghua University analyzed the diffusion process of the treated Fukushima accident contaminated water to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean from 2023.
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The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate.
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Alex Poulin says his 4-year-old son loves deer meat, but contamination from 'forever chemicals' causes him to worry that his family is being harmed.
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The rain began falling across Europe on July 12. The storm started over the United Kingdom and swept east across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and then Germany. There it stalled for two days. During the pause, more than 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) of rain fell in east Belgium and 15 centimeters...
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Behemoth is the first of God's conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. - Job 40:19 (GWT)
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says more than 120,000 facilities in the U.S. are handling PFAS “forever chemicals,” linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, thyroid disease, decreased immunity, hormone disruption and a range of other serious health problems.
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Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says there was a backlog of 54 ships at anchorage, including nine container ships, while empty containers pile up at industrial sites and docks in the region...
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The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has dispatched excavators to dig trenches along Nairobi’s Mombasa Road and Uhuru Highway in an effort to combat the flooding witnessed over the weekend.
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Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous...
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Burning rubbish to make electricity sounds too good to be true because there’s a big catch.
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