The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass signs executive orders to ramp up the city’s efforts to clean up a Boyle Heights warehouse that burned ...

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in Earth's protective layer of ...

A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide.

KENT, Ohio — Three people were hospitalized after an accidental chemical reaction occurred at the Akron Water Plant in Portage County Wednesday afternoon, forcing an hours-long shelter-in-place order ...

Reporting for this story comes from the series Safe to Drink, a podcast that follows stories of water contamination in New England by Mara Hoplamazian from New Hampshire Public Radio. "Forever ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- There is no longer a threat of explosion, fire or chemical leak for a damaged tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, the Orange County Fire Authority ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Evacuation orders were issued to 40,000 Orange County residents as firefighters tried to prevent a spill or an explosion. Health officials said they couldn’t predict the impact of a toxic release.

Mon, April 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM UTC FREEPORT, Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a chemical manufacturer in Freefort for illegally releasing chlorine and other ...

CONYERS, Ga. -- Thousands of people were told to stay home with their windows shut Monday after a Sunday fire at a Georgia chemical plant caused a chemical reaction that forced around 17,000 people to ...

Most of the world’s ethylene is produced from fossil fuels, generating large amounts of CO₂ while industries still need carbon-based chemicals and fuels. Researchers used a bismuth-copper alloy ...