Neighbors of a lead recycling factory in Eagan learned last year that they could get part of a $30 million settlement ...

After Eagan residents were unknowingly breathing in lead for months, a Minnesota House representative is calling for a ...

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire hummed with activity. Roads stretched like arteries, connecting distant provinces.

Lead pollution is a 5,000-year-old problem, Flegal said, citing elevated lead levels in Chinese lake sediments deposited during the Bronze Age. Recent records from U.S. lake sediments show decreases ...

RENO, Nev. — Lead pollution from Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the vast Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, new research suggests.

Like lead, air pollution is easy to put into the environment, and much harder to take out. “The more I do in this area, the bigger the problem seems to me,” Cory-Slechta says.

“The onset of ubiquitous lead pollution in both terrestrial and marine environments 2,150 years ago is linked to a fundamental political change,” researchers write.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman era, a study has found. The negative health effects of lead exposure in modernity have been widely recognized.

“Lead released from smelting is the world’s first form of toxic or industrial pollution,” said Yale historian Joseph Manning, who was not involved in the study.