The Army’s tungsten-based bullets were designed to be more eco-friendly, but research showing tungsten increases cancer risk pushed them to pull the plug. The problem, Danger Room points out, is that ...

With efforts underway to ban lead-based ammunition as a potential health and environmental hazard, scientists are reporting new evidence that a prime alternative material for bullets -- tungsten -- ...

Army officials at Camp Edwards believed they were being eco-friendly when they started using a "green bullet" that contains no lead — a move meant to prevent polluting an aquifer beneath the base. But ...

Army officials at Camp Edwards believed they were being eco-friendly when they started using a “green bullet” that contains no lead — a move meant to prevent polluting an aquifer beneath the base. But ...

BOSTON-- Gov. Mitt Romney announced yesterday that the use of so-called environmentally safe bullets in military training exercises at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod has been suspended after traces of metal ...

Stephen Leahy doesn't want to take guns away - he just want to make their bullets greener. The chairman and chief executive officer of North American Tungsten Corp. Ltd. hopes demand for the metal his ...

“I SHOOT the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use leaden ones, his hide is sure to flatten 'em.” Ogden Nash, who penned those lines many moons ago, would no doubt be pleased to ...

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LEAD IS DENSE and ductile, has a low melting point, and is inexpensive, making it long prized for molding into ammunition. But it's also toxic to birds and other animals that ingest bullets and bullet ...