"circumstances about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about the details or facts that make up the context of a situation, especially if they are relevant to the situation. For example: "The circumstances about the accident made it very difficult for the police to investigate."
In the founding texts of Christianity and Islam (in Greek and Arabic respectively) the word for martyr is identical or nearly identical to that for witness, someone who gives testimony (not necessarily in dramatic circumstances) about something they believe to be true, or have seen for themselves.
I have met more than one person in the course of my work who has constructed a "story" about their life circumstances, about why they can't achieve something, be someone, experience something they would prefer, because of something that happened earlier in their life, because of something someone else did or said.
The TV story "Halted Childhood" is a touching, but professionally high quality production on growing up under difficult circumstances, about poverty as an environment in which children's rights are violated repeatedly.
But Williams recognized several distinctive circumstances about the 1941 season.
It's just one of those circumstances about progress in football.
In normal circumstances about two-thirds of the hydrogen ions to be secreted in the urine is in the form of ammonium salts (e.g., ammonium chloride).
The accumulation of these circumstances brings about altered life trajectories, which make people more vulnerable to mental health disorders.
How can such unsettling circumstances bring about a positive result?
In Venezuela, once again, a man and his circumstances are about to change the tide of history.
We ask how the circumstances bringing about this positive assortment arose in the first place.
Coping capacity refers to the ability of the population to adapt to changes in the circumstances, brought about by climate change.
