Stories by Robert McClure

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has known for decades that kids have too-easy access to a new generation of super-toxic rat poisons. Every year more than 10,000 kids are getting hold of them, and virtually all of the calls to U.S. poison control centers concern children under six. New regulations to protect children and wildlife go into effect next year

Owls are dying under gruesome circumstances, bleeding to death from stomach hemorrhages. The culprit: An extra-potent class of rodenticides that has flooded the market in recent decades, Part 1 of 2