Arsenic
Arsenic Blankets This Tiny Montana Town. Its Residents Are Asking the Supreme Court to Let Them Clean It Up.
The case could affect the cleanup of hundreds of other polluted sites in the U.S.
This Worm Has Three Sexes
A newly-discovered species of nematode has three sexes, carries its young internally like a kangaroo, and can survive 500 times the lethal dose of arsenic for a human.
Small Town Austrians Used to Eat Arsenic to Get High
Up until the 1950s, people in the southern state of Styria ate the toxic metal as a kind of stimulant. Photographer Simon Brugner is trying to understand why.
Canada won’t compensate this First Nation for historic gold mine poisoning
Compensation for Giant Mine arsenic contamination would be costly and could set precedent for other contaminated sites: government report.
In Photos: Bangladesh's Arsenic Crisis — 'The Largest Mass Poisoning of a Population in History'
A Human Rights Watch report shows how access to clean water remains a severe problem for millions of Bangladeshis two decades after gaining international attention.
A Brief History of Women Putting Poison in Their Lovers' Food
For many reasons—money, jealousy, or even a way out of an abusive relationship—poison has remained an effective weapon for women throughout history.
American Wine Is Full of Poison
Sixty-four of the 65 bottles sampled had levels of arsenic above the US Environmental Protection Agency maximum.
Three Million Gallons of Toxic Wastewater Has Turned This River the Color of American Cheese
US Environmental Protection Agency workers were using heavy equipment and accidentally breached a mine wall, unleashing the toxic spill.
This Lake Shouldn’t Be Blue (Excerpt from ‘Toxic Waste in the US: Coal Ash’)
In this excerpt, VICE News correspondent Neha Shastry visits Little Blue Run, the largest coal ash impoundment in the US, and speaks to a resident about the environmental effects of this big blue toxic lake.
The Arsenic-Proof People of the Andes
Researchers studied the first human population that can digest the king of poisons.
Contaminated Drinking Water (Extra Scene from 'Toxic Waste in the US: Coal Ash')
In this extra scene, a couple living near a coal ash pond in Dukeville, North Carolina, speak about how finding out that their drinking water is contaminated shone a new light on the illnesses in their family and in the neighborhood over the years.
Toxic Waste in the US: Coal Ash (Full Length)
VICE News investigates coal ash, one of the largest industrial waste streams in the United States.