84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.

Picher, Oklahoma, is emblematic of what happens ... A green field hides the remnants of three towns lost to toxic waste.

Explores the ghost town of Picher in north-east Oklahoma, known as the most toxic town in America. Skip to main content Abandoned Americana : Season 2 Episode 4 ...

University of Oklahoma (OU) researchers, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Community Deep Mapping Institute and a local organization, are creating a ...

A solicitor who represented families affected by a town's toxic waste scandal has called for a public inquiry and a "full apology". Years after Corby's steelworks were closed in 1980, mothers ...