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Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
The Monsanto Company (/ mɒnˈsæntoʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops.
FIPS code. 17-67756. GNIS feature ID. 2399187 [2] Wikimedia Commons. Sauget, Illinois. Sauget (/ sɔːˈʒeɪ / saw-ZHAY) is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is part of Greater St. Louis. The population was 141 at the 2020 census, down from 159 in 2010.
The FBI and Postal Service are investigating suspicious mail containing a white powder substance that was sent to election offices in at least 17 states this week, according to an ABC News canvass ...
The March Against Monsanto was an international grassroots movement and protest against Monsanto, a producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide. [1] The movement was founded by Tami Canal in response to the failure of California Proposition 37, a ballot initiative which would have required ...
Love Canal. Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km 2 (0.11 sq mi) landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster discovered in 1977. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds, often profoundly. [1]
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster, [3] over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly ...
The Dayton Project was a research and development project to produce polonium during World War II, as part of the larger Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. Work took place at several sites in and around Dayton, Ohio. Those working on the project were ultimately responsible for creating the polonium-based modulated neutron ...