The residents of Carson, a city in the Los Angeles County, California, were seized by real horror. An intolerable stench, dubbed the "smell of death," comes from a nearby canal where decaying vegetation is said to be releasing jets of hydrogen sulphide gas. Writes about this The Guardian. Carson City Council announced the local ...
A Nebraska man suffered from multiple organ failure after turning psychedelic mushrooms into tea, which he then injected into his veins, writes Business Insider. According to a medical history published in the journal of the Academy of Counseling Psychiatry, the 30-year-old man's family took him to the emergency room ...
The toxic algae that has killed dogs in North Carolina is the same type of bacteria that was found in several New Jersey lakes this summer. The New York Post writes about this. It is unclear whether the cyanobacteria bloom in New Jersey is the same strain...
All beaches along the Mississippi Gulf Coast have been closed due to toxic algae that can cause rashes and vomiting, writes the New York Post. On Sunday, July 7, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced that two additional beaches in the county ...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission warns against ocean swimming and beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. This is due to a natural phenomenon called "Red Tide", it is caused by an increased concentration of algae that release dangerous toxins. These toxins ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is warning residents of several states of the spread of a dangerous toxic plant in their territory. Mantegazzi hogweed (Latin Heracleum mantegazzianum, English Giant Hogweed) was discovered this year in New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Carolina ...
The home aquarium was the perfect addition to the Chasiti Ahman family's living room in Cedar Park, Texas. Then the woman discovered beautiful polyps in the aquarium, which were not there before, but she did not know that they were fraught with mortal danger, writes the Miami Herald. ...
Nearly 30 million Americans use contaminated tap water, which contains carcinogens and causes birth defects. Violations of the Law on Safe Drinking Water were found in all states of the United States, without exception, about 80 thousand violations of drinking water safety were identified, ...
Authorities in Sonoma County, California, are warning local residents about the dangers of toxic algae in the Russian River. Tests of the samples showed it was the same blue-green algae that led to the death of the dog last year. Toxic substance...
As parents scramble to stock up on chocolates for Easter, a Bay Area activist group is raising concerns about the level of hazardous heavy metals in popular chocolates. This year, an independent group of activists tested about 50 types of chocolates. Heavy metals were found in 35 samples: lead and cadmium. In many…