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Poison

June 2024

  • The electric caterpillar, Comana monomorpha

    Bugs, drugs and electric venom: is this the most deadly library in the world?

    For people in north Queensland, a bright green caterpillar’s sting ‘feels like the seven rings of hell’. But scientists in Brisbane hope its toxin can be used to help, not harm

February 2024

  • Asbestos signs at Sydney’s Victoria park, where bonded asbestos was found in mulch, 14 February 2024.

    The dirt files
    Asbestos in Sydney mulch: what are the regulations and should they be tougher?

    Contaminated batches of the landscaping product have been found across the city. We examine the rules for suppliers and whether NSW compliance measures are strict enough

December 2023

  • Police tape.

    Canada police charge man with 14 counts of murder for mailing poison

    Police say Kenneth Law, 58, sent at least 1,200 packages containing lethal substances to addresses in more than 40 countries

November 2023

  • FILE - This March 16, 2017, file photo released by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office shows a cyanide device in Pocatello, Idaho. Citing public safety concerns, the Bureau of Land Management is ending the use of spring-loaded booby traps planted on public lands that eject cyanide powder when triggered to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, a practice wildlife advocates and others have been trying to outlaw for decades. (Bannock County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

    Our unequal earth
    Ban on ‘cyanide bombs’ on US public lands celebrated as a win for wildlife

    Move builds on decisions by states like Oregon to fully or partially prohibit the use of M-44s used to kill predators and other wildlife

October 2023

  • Mayo Clinic sign on building.

    Former Mayo Clinic resident charged with fatally poisoning wife in Minnesota

  • Elena Kostyuchenko Illustration: Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target – podcast

September 2023

  • Elena Kostyuchenko in a short-sleeved T-shirt, long hair parted on the lefthand side, looking serious behind three stripes symbolising the Russian flag

    The long read
    ‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target

    The long read: My reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued – and then came the mysterious illness

August 2023

  • Ian Wilkinson (right) remains critically ill in hospital. He lost his wife Heather (left) after the pair ate a meal believed to have contained death cap mushrooms.

    Family of mushroom poisoning survivor ‘deeply moved’ by support as pastor remains critical in Melbourne hospital

    Ian Wilkinson is in critical but stable condition after consuming a mushroom lunch in Leongatha last month
  • Death cap mushrooms

    Full Story
    The mushroom mystery that has left an Australian town reeling – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia science reporter Donna Lu speaks to Jane Lee about the Leongatha mushroom case
  • A death cap mushroom

    Death cap mushrooms: why are they so toxic and how can poisoning be treated?

    Eating even a very small amount of the mushrooms at the centre of the suspected poisoning in Victoria can be fatal, and treatment is often only effective if administered very quickly

June 2023

  • Hemlock water dropwort

    Country diary
    Country diary: The carrot cousin that’s pretty but deadly

    Harlech, Gwynedd: At the boundary of a wood I find some hemlock water dropwort, of which every part is poisonous

January 2023

  • Pascale Ferrier

    Quebec woman pleads guilty to mailing poisonous ricin to Donald Trump

  • Andre de Ruyter

    South Africa police investigate alleged plot to poison CEO with cyanide

April 2022

  • Death cap mushroom

    Victoria issues urgent health warning against eating death cap and yellow-staining mushrooms

    Advisory warns one death cap mushroom could kill an adult as wild mushrooms sprout over multiple states after massive rainfall

March 2022

  • Pictures from Jonathan Herrman's Facebook page of himself in hospital after eating wild mushrooms that had grown on his front lawn that made him violently ill. Sydney. Australia. He has posted the pictures them as as a warning to others not not to eat wild mushrooms.

    Mushrooms are popping up everywhere in Sydney’s downpour. Here’s why you shouldn’t be tempted

    The wet conditions are causing a glut of mushrooms and toadstools all over the east coast, but experts say you can look but don’t touch – and definitely don’t eat them

February 2022

  • A male pheasant

    Voluntary UK ban on killing birds with lead shot has had ‘no detectable effect’

    Report finds 99.5% of pheasants in Cambridge University study contained pellets made of the toxic metal

September 2021

  • Death cap mushrooms

    Afghan evacuee boy dies in Poland after eating mushrooms

    Five-year-old dies and six-year-old brother critically ill after undergoing liver transplant near Warsaw

September 2020

  • Angela Merkel

    Merkel pressured to end Nord Stream 2 support after Navalny poisoning

    German opposition calls on chancellor to use gas pipeline project to warn Kremlin

August 2020

  • Alexei Navalny pictured in February this year.

    Alexei Navalny showing some improvement but still in coma

    Russian authorities dismiss calls for criminal inquiry into suspected poisoning of dissident

July 2020

  • Rohingya children at a water pipe

    One in three children have dangerous levels of lead in their blood

    About 800 million children, mostly in developing countries, likely to have more than 5 micrograms of potent neurotoxin per decilitre
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