For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment ...

Thousands of decaying barrels littering the seafloor off the Los Angeles coast may contain radioactive waste, according to an alarming new study. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara initially thought the ...

When UC Santa Barbara scientist David Valentine found an underwater graveyard of strange barrels off the Southern California coast between Los Angeles and Catalina Island, their contents were a ...

More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste have lain scattered across the Atlantic Ocean for nearly 50 years, a relic of an era when dumping nuclear materials at sea was considered safe. Between ...

The caustic waste that leaked from the barrels created an extreme environment similar to that of hydrothermal vents, colonized by specialized bacteria that thrive in such harsh conditions. Reading ...

According to Business Insider Africa, inspectors discovered 400 barrels of radioactive core material at the Madaouela site ...

The agreement covers radioactive trash and hazardous waste, including transuranic waste that has been packed in barrels and buried at Hanford. Transuranic waste is typically plutonium-contaminated ...

When the wind blows the wrong direction, Esther Calhoun can smell it. Calhoun’s home is often downwind from the Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama, a site that accepted toxic coal ash in the ...

(Reuters) - A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing ...