Recently, the world learned that the Ukrainian opposition leader, Victor Yushchenko, was diagnosed with dioxin poisoning. A number of political analysts have reported it was an attempted political ...

An independent study has concluded that dioxin and furan levels at the proposed future site of a biomass gasification plant in the south Oroville are within or below commercial and industrial ...

Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...

You could get whiplash watching the scientific back-and-forth on dioxin. In 1982 the federal government evacuated Times Beach, Mo., after waste oil laced with the toxic chemical was spread on streets ...

The city of Houston found dioxin in 42 soil samples from around the long-contaminated Union Pacific site near Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward, adding to concerns there could be ongoing risk for those ...

CHICAGO -- Exposure to the ubiquitous dioxin chemicals was linked with thyroid dysfunction, a new study found. Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) data, researchers led ...

Food & Water Watch, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, said Monday it’s concerned about the way the U.S. Department of Agriculture is regulating meat imports following last weekend’s recall of ...

Dioxin is a highly toxic chemical compound that can do serious harm to humans. Dioxin can be created from natural processes, like volcanic eruptions and forest fires. However, it is often an unwanted ...

Increasing restrictions on water and air pollution, along with the closure of industrial plants, have done little to clean up dioxin from the Houston Ship Channel, a surprising finding that has ...

COHOES -- Norlite, the state's only commercial hazardous waste incinerator, failed a self-test last fall for emissions of dioxin, a highly toxic carcinogen, the state Department of Environmental ...

Lab tests on cattle at four Irish farms have found much higher levels of cancer-causing dioxins than initially thought, government agency officials said Thursday, but they stressed that the problem ...

In humans, acute poisoning by high doses of dioxin almost systematically triggers a dramatic skin disease termed chlorine, which may persist for years (Yamamoto and Tokura, 2003). In addition, ...