En række amerikanske byer rammes af en bølge af underlige dødsfald. Fysik- og kemilæreren Elliot, hans kone Alma og en af deres venners datter forsøger som alle andre at komme væk. Men hvad er det, der er på spil, og kan Elliot gøre noget for at stoppe katastrofen?
En terrorist udløser en eksplosion, der ryster forbundsbygningen og frigiver en giftig gas i hele ventilationssystemet. Hans formål: at afsløre regeringens hemmelige biologiske krigsførelsesvåben, en dødbringende virus, der øjeblikkeligt angriber en persons binyresystem og får dem til at blive umenneskeligt aggressive med en ukontrollabel trang til at dræbe hinanden.
Calvin and Iris's dream vacation turns into a nightmare when a satellite the government claimed to have destroyed crashes near their campsite and releases a deadly toxic cloud.
A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area, which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May, who lives in a cabin in the forest nearby. May says that her house is infested by small creatures that she thinks are mice or rats. When the couple search the house further, they notice that they're not rodents or insects. They are fast evolving lizards that have the appetite for animals and humans, no matter what size their prey are...
Parkersburg ligger i et smukt bakket landskab i West Virginia ved siden af den store kemiske virksomhed, DuPont, der producerer teflon. Da en landmands køer blev syge og døde, blev DuPonts giftige teflonkemikalie, C8, opdaget. Kort efter fik en skolelærer brev om, at der var C8 i hans drikkevand, men at det ikke var farligt. Så rullede skandalen. Det viste sig, at DuPont, mod bedre vidende, i årevis havde pumpet det giftige kemikalie ud i luften og i drikkevandsboringer. Og ikke bare her, men over hele USA.
Marcus, an average young man awakens to find his apartment under quarantine and completely isolated from the outside world. Ominous messages about toxins and evacuations plaster each screen of his various electronic devices, leaving his next door neighbor as the only person he has contact with. Scared, and with few resources, the two try to navigate there way through the indefinite wait - staving off hunger, boredom, and paranoia.
Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them. She has just learned that hundreds of synthetic toxins are now found in every baby born in America and the government and chemical corporations are doing little to protect citizens and consumers. With guidance from world-renowned physicians and environmental leaders, interviews with scientists and politicians, and stories of everyday Americans, Soozie uncovers how we got to be so overloaded with chemicals and if there is anything we can do to take control of our exposure.