Environmental disasters can be a company’s worst nightmare come alive—not only because of the profound ecological impact, but also due to the instant public scrutiny these incidents attract. A poorly ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

The Indonesian government has announced what it describes as a sweeping, science-based effort to reassess environmental ...

Like a scar after a major injury, traces of Kepone remain buried in James River sediments — a reminder of how fragile ...

Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...

Fifty years after the James river’s closure, Virginia’s worst environmental disaster — one that sickened scores of citizens and crippled a vital industry — marks a nadir in the state’s ...

The unprecedented Los Angeles wildfires nearly two months ago burnt down entire communities and displaced thousands of people ...

A ship tries to put out the flames after the collision off the northeast coast of England on Monday. - Bartek Śmiałek/AP Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of ...

Trump’s national energy emergency still has to follow environmental protection laws President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency invokes the National Emergencies Act, which allows the ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. Indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, a slew of boomtown-gone-bust mining ...