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In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, containers used for hazardous chemicals lie exposed and piled up at a junkyard run by the Chinese-led Dar Petroleum Operating Company in Gumry, near Paloch, in South Sudan. The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits with the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, and accounts of &quot;alarming&quot; birth defects, miscarriages and other health problems, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, children stand in a field by the side of the road between Melut and in Paloch town, in South Sudan. The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits with the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, and accounts of &quot;alarming&quot; birth defects, miscarriages and other health problems, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

South Sudan buries reports on oil pollution, birth defects

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press