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 ...

Environmental disasters generally fall into two categories: natural and manmade. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 destroyed flora and fauna across hundreds of square miles and partially ...

This program goes through the various ways to deal with and prepare for environmental disasters, the regulations surrounding this, as well as any of the implications for corporations. Lewis Wiener, an ...

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

The world has faced environmental disasters that left scars on human health, wildlife, and ecosystems, many of which were hidden, ignored, or downplayed by those responsible. From toxic waste buried ...

Our planet has been shaped by various human activities that have largely contributed to make Earth a better planet for survival. But some human activities are the reason for environmental disasters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 70,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the Sea Empress tanker after it ran aground near Milford Haven in ...

The unprecedented Los Angeles wildfires nearly two months ago burnt down entire communities and displaced thousands of people have all been contained, but the questions about the extent of the ...

Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 ...

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

Lawmakers are navigating partisan divides as they seek to pass a bipartisan disaster aid bill by the end of the year. Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on the main issue at hand: the need to ...