toxic waste

Ivorians express disappointment following a trial over the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste in 2006.

Thirty years ago this summer, America learned the name Love Canal. The working-class Niagara Falls neighborhood built atop tons of chemical waste became a synonym for environmental disaster.

Despite the outcry over Love Canal, little has been done to make schoolchildren safer from hazardous or toxic waste, says one advocate for environmental causes.

Hundreds of Kenyans near Mombasa say they have become ill after leaking chemical containers were dumped nearby.