When environmental activists began a survey of birth defects in this small migrant farming town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the results were alarming. About 20 babies were born here ...

FRESNO, Calif. — Kings County will develop a program to improve birth outcomes using grant money from the company that runs a hazardous waste dump near Kettleman City, a community that has been rocked ...

The term “waste” encompasses an array of definitions for hospitals and health systems, including wasted time, finances, steps and human potential, to name a few. Here are eight types of waste in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. More pollution is coming to Kettleman City despite major problems with the dirty ...

A team of nuclear waste experts has found hundreds of serious defects at an Energy Department plant designed to turn millions of gallons of highly radioactive sludge into more stable solid glass at ...

When a group of teenage environmental activists started a health survey of their Central Valley town, they were prepared for the usual problems plaguing the mostly Latino, mostly poor residents: ...

Research points at a group of lysosomal storage disorder genes as potential major contributors to the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease. An international study has shed new light on the ...

If we are to prevent the impending environmental crisis, it is imperative that we find efficient and sustainable ways to avoid being wasteful. One area with much room for improvement is the recycling ...

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. State and federal officials are scrambling to determine what caused the deaths of three children in this Central California farming town, which shares a ZIP code with the ...

Detecting macro-defects early in the wafer processing flow is vital for yield and process improvement, and it is driving innovations in both inspection techniques and wafer test map analysis. At the ...

Half-Heusler Ni-based alloys are thermoelectric materials with the potential for converting waste heat into electricity. However, the origin of their impressive conversion efficiency is not entirely ...