A little more than a year ago, Department of Natural Resources officials were shooting dead sheep with high-caliber lead bullets, studying to see whether the bullets fragmented upon impact, and how ...

Scientists report a way to turn recovered lead bullets into a high-purity ingredient for next-generation solar cells, linking hazardous-waste cleanup with renewable energy materials. The peer-reviewed ...

Materials scientists say they’ve taken nearly 300-year-old toxic waste—a stockpile of spherical lead bullets from the 16th and 17th centuries, tainted with carbon residue, metal impurities, and the ...

• The Department of Interior in March announcement a plan to ban lead ammunition and fishing gear throughout the National Park System by 2011. (Hunting is allowed in some national parks, preserves and ...

Hunters are being urged to stop using lead bullets because bald eagles and other wildlife that consume carcasses left behind are often sickened by lead poisoning. Late fall and early winter is deer ...

The use of lead in ammunition is already prohibited in the main California Condor range between San Jose and Los Angeles. The ban is supposed to help in the comeback of North America's largest land ...

MOORHEAD -- Beth Siverhus has hunted deer since 1976, and for the first time next year, she plans to use copper-coated bullets instead of lead. That's because the Warroad, Minn., woman also spends ...