Human civilization has achieved extraordinary things — but it has also left a trail of environmental wreckage that spans continents, centuries, and ecosystems. From catastrophic nuclear meltdowns to ...

Lax safety measures, inadequate emergency response mechanisms, and scientists that tried to speak out but were silenced.

Man-made disasters, in contrast, are not “natural” in any sense. They are the result of someone intentionally causing widespread death and destruction. This adds an additional element to the ...

The tragic accident at the Hadong Rail Bike in Hadong County, Gyeongsangnam-do—where two consecutive rear-end collisions ...

The Haitian earthquake has produced a catastrophe of biblical proportions. The enormous loss of life being predicted by officials on the ground would make it the worst natural disaster of its kind in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) — As the federal government shutdown drags into its fourth week, hunger relief leaders across Alabama are ...

Disaster preparedness and disaster-relief efforts are hot topics on Chinese social media as the country braces for as many as three new typhoons in the next ten days. This follows the devastation ...

On November 25, a massive fire broke out in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong, China, claiming 161 deaths TASS FACTBOX. TASS editors have compiled a list of the largest man-made ...

Kerala ministers Ramesh Chennithala and T Siddique have called the landslide in Wayanad today "man-made" and attributed the cause to "unscientific dumping" of debris at a tunnel project site. They ...

Here in my adopted city of Vancouver, people are still reeling from the recent killing of 11 people by a man who intentionally drove his SUV into a crowded Filipino street festival. Among the victims ...