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 ...

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 ...

Three years after Times Beach, Mo., was evacuated because of serious dioxin contamination, health authorities continue to haggle over how much of a hazard the chemical is. Dioxin is at the heart of 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 ...

EAST PALESTINE — Environmental Protection Agency Response Coordinator Mark Durno discussed preliminary results of the completed Phase I soil-sampling with East Palestine residents at First United ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to ...

Prompted in large part by concern over dioxin emissions, cities around the globe have been tightening regulations on municipal incinerators. Largely ignored have been rural households that burn their ...

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, ...