SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said it is investigating worker safety around lead-sheathed telecom cables, opening up a “health hazard evaluation” in ...

Boston College Professor of Biology Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., founding director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, joined a roundtable discussion on February 5 that sought ...

New York Congressman Pat Ryan joined cleanup crews in Cornwall Saturday to call on telecom companies like Verizon and AT&T to disclose and clean up toxic, lead-sheathed cables across the country. Ryan ...

Houston police arrested three people accused of damaging hundreds of telecom cables in a northeast side neighborhood. Police said the trio was hoping to steal copper wire, but mistakenly cut fiber ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials ...

Someone has been vandalizing telecom cables and internet lines in King County, and the sheriff’s office is partnering with Comcast to find the person or people responsible. Detectives say this ...