Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...

You could get whiplash watching the scientific back-and-forth on dioxin. In 1982 the federal government evacuated Times Beach, Mo., after waste oil laced with the toxic chemical was spread on streets ...

The city of Houston found dioxin in 42 soil samples from around the long-contaminated Union Pacific site near Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward, adding to concerns there could be ongoing risk for those ...

An independent study has concluded that dioxin and furan levels at the proposed future site of a biomass gasification plant in the south Oroville are within or below commercial and industrial ...

EAST PALESTINE — Environmental Protection Agency Response Coordinator Mark Durno discussed preliminary results of the completed Phase I soil-sampling with East Palestine residents at First United ...

Lab tests on cattle at four Irish farms have found much higher levels of cancer-causing dioxins than initially thought, government agency officials said Thursday, but they stressed that the problem ...

In humans, acute poisoning by high doses of dioxin almost systematically triggers a dramatic skin disease termed chlorine, which may persist for years (Yamamoto and Tokura, 2003). In addition, ...

Prompted in large part by concern over dioxin emissions, cities around the globe have been tightening regulations on municipal incinerators. Largely ignored have been rural households that burn their ...

Dioxin is a highly toxic chemical compound that can do serious harm to humans. Dioxin can be created from natural processes, like volcanic eruptions and forest fires. However, it is often an unwanted ...

The government has spent many millions of dollars in recent decades cleaning up sites contaminated with dioxin and, in extreme cases, relocating residents of entire neighborhoods tainted by the toxin.

The poisons surfaced first along the city streets, and later were found in yards and gardens, too. For two years, residents of a small cluster of houses in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood have known ...

When a team of attorneys contacted the New-Indy paper company earlier this month, they explained that dioxin, a highly toxic chemical linked to an array of illnesses, was draining from the company’s ...