164 million tons of an industrial waste called red mud is disposed of every year. But four students have shown that it could have a far more productive use: as pottery.

The Swamp Rabbit Trail, ... The fine is the largest hazardous waste penalty DHEC has issued in five years, and one of the biggest in South Carolina since 1990, department records show.

The nonprofit Conservation Fund acquired nearly 8,000 acres of land near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, protecting the ecosystem against a proposed titanium mine. A decade after the U.S. EPA updated its ...

The village of Geamana was abandoned as a dump for toxic waste from a nearby copper mine. It's not just vampires and bats that make Transylvania eerie. ... You can now add a vast toxic swamp.