The red, metal-laden sludge that escaped a containment pond in Hungary last week could be made less toxic with the help of carbon sequestration, says an Indiana University Bloomington geologist who has a patent pending on the technique.

The world's largest antimony mine has become the world's largest laboratory for studying the environmental consequences of escaped antimony -- an element whose environmental and biological properties are still largely a mystery.

Roundup: China to test all dairy products for melamine after thousands sickened by tainted baby formula BEIJING, Sept.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING - A third baby has died in connection with China's spreading scandal over tainted milk formula and more than 6,200 infants have become sick, Health Minister Chen Zhu said today.

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua "Roundup" by tainted baby formula: "China To Test All Dairy Products for Melamine After Thousands Sickened by Tainted Baby Formula"] BEIJING, Sept.