When scientists found a carcinogen in the drinking water of Santa Rosa, Calif., after the Tubbs fire, it triggered a race to ...

Officials were monitoring the toxic jet fuel leak to see what effects the pollutants would have on the water and air, as well ...

The container ship Solong struck US oil tanker Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.

That depends on a few things - but the clouds of filthy black smoke from the fires that burned ... vessels and how much has leaked into the water. Follow live: Jet fuel spilling into sea after ...

A cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off England, setting both vessels ...

The UK coastguard ended the search for a missing crew member after a cargo ship ran into a US-military chartered tanker ...

The chemical evaporates into the air very quickly ... and forest fires and is found in cigarette smoke, dissolves only slightly in water and will float on top of the water. It is used in the ...

The MV Stena Immaculate, a U.S.-flagged chemical and oil products tanker, was anchored near the port of Grimsby at the time of the crash, having arrived from Greece. The Solong, a Portugal-flagged ...

The Solong’s cargo included sodium cyanide, which can produce harmful gas when combined with water, according to industry ... vessel showed thick black smoke pouring from both ships.

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), sodium cyanide can also turn into hydrogen cyanide on contact with water. Videos of the incident showed black plumes of smoke billowing into ...