We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology. By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados Visuals by Finbarr O’Reilly and Carmen Abd Ali Promotional videos from the Association ...
Car batteries fail without warning from the visible signs most drivers recognize. The internal chemical degradation that causes failure is invisible from the outside until the battery can no longer ...
We went to Nigeria, where recycling plants are extracting lead for use in American and European car batteries — at a terrible human cost. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. A lot of ...
OGIJO, Nigeria — Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories ...