In the early afternoon of Dec. 22, 1984, four black teenagers were riding the subway in lower Manhattan when a thin and bespectacled man got on. The four had snuck onto a bus, jumped the turnstiles to ...

The Trump administration has now signed off on a new AGOA deal, allowing South Africa duty-free access to the US market. But do not celebrate too quickly, warns our seasoned business journo, Jan ...

Researchers investigated historic and current lead exposure by studying an unexpected part of the body: hair. In a study published yesterday in the journal PNAS, researchers analyzed hair clippings ...

Years ago I saw a bald eagle feeding on a groundhog I had dispatched. It was then that I decided to switch to lead-free ammo. Since then I have learned that a lead bullet can disperse the toxic metal ...

In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...

After a Consumer Reports investigation revealed that some popular protein powders and shakes contained troubling levels of lead, many readers wrote in with a simple question: What does this mean for ...

A sick bald eagle, unable to fly or stand, was found in the Upper Peninsula on New Year's Day — and later tested to have blood-lead levels so high, an instrument couldn't read them. It highlights a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in ...

The primary objective of compositional analysis of bullet lead (CABL) is to produce evidence for use in court. Although the evidence is analyzed with scientific instrumentation and statistical methods ...

Late fall and early winter are deer hunting seasons in many parts of the U.S. Most hunters headed into the field will be armed with bullets made of lead. But lead is toxic for predators eating animals ...

Hunters are being urged to stop using lead bullets because bald eagles and other wildlife that consume carcasses left behind are often sickened by lead poisoning. Late fall and early winter is deer ...