A decade after Brazil’s 2015 Fundão dam collapse, research shows bananas grown near the Doce River estuary may contain ...

A major oil spill which killed thousands of birds is still being debated, three decades later.

From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Over the past five years, the U.S. has experienced an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like ...

The worst environmental disasters in history were man-made. They killed thousands of people. Douglas A. McIntyre, ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

ECUA has presided over one of our largest environmental disasters For 11 years I have lived 100 feet from Skinner Mill Creek, which empties into Escambia Bay. In 2022 a contractor broke into the sew ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...