Bets Thorkelson's opposition to 3M Co.'s hazardous waste incinerator began in the mid-1990s, when she learned that four moms of boys on her sons' hock...

"Heat Finds Victims From Seashore to the Rockies." This New York Times headline is from July 9, 1921, but could well have been printed any day thi...

Rosemary Bilchak and her husband, Gordon MacAlpine, were eating on their porch when they heard the engine of the pesticide fogger rev up next door. ...

Environmental health experts, advocates and legislators convened at Yale University on Tuesday to discuss the use of man-made pesticides and the healt...

This story originally appeared in Issue 6 of our new weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, in the iTunes App store. As you read this, a menagerie...

Bonnie Wirtz recalls the nurse practitioner's private words as she was released from a rural Minnesota hospital last month: "I want to let you know th...

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It's raining from the skies above Sacramento, Calif., and Miami. It's blasting out the back of trucks in Chicago and shooting from backpack-mounted gu...