How an offshore drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico turned into one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. waters. When a surge of natural gas blasted through the Macondo well, it ignited on ...

Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The El Niño predicted for 2026–2027 is one such event.

In the past 150 years, humanity has faced a plethora of calamities. The first half of the 20 th century was a horror show, ...

VICTORIA — Ministers in British Columbia have approved plans to increase the height of the tailings storage facility at the ...

The last time this happened was 1877. Add political adventurism and corporate confusion to the mix, and we already know what happens. We’ve experienced it before. In 1877. This Super El Nino led to ...

Devastating earthquakes in the South American nation will test the US President's commitment to propping up his new ally ...

The way David Brook sees it, it goes like this. A valve fails. Or a line cracks. Or a tank takes an unexpected hit. And, ...

“If you dipped in and out of the documentary ‘Jon Snow: A Last Big Story’” (Channel 4), you might be confused as to what it was all about, said Benji Wilson in The Telegraph. At one level, the film, ...

The fatal Wayanad landslide was a preventable, man-made disaster linked to environmentally risky infrastructure development. It calls for an independent scientific audit of the twin-tube tunnel ...

The state's emergency agency has spent hundreds of millions on immigration enforcement efforts over the past year.

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...