TO GO WITH STORY BY JOSHUA MELVIN "Climate change stirs ghosts of America's toxic past"
Chandler Bell, 51, prepares to launch his boat to go fishing in the Tombigbee River in McIntosh, Alabama on April 12, 2021. - Murky flood waters of Alabama's Tombigbee River rippled over ground tainted with mercury and a pesticide so toxic that US officials outlawed it decades ago, a dangerous past that could cause even more damage with climate change. Hundreds of America's worst polluted places, like a neighboring pair of chemical plant sites on the Tombigbee, are threatened by storms, rising waters, fires and other extreme weather made more intense as the Earth warms. "There might be a whole lot of danger for us," said 59-year-old Darrell Wayne Moss, who lives across the street from the sprawling Olin chemical plant. "It makes you afraid." (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)