On August 4, 2020 an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon rocked the city and was felt across the country. The Orient Queen was docked at the same port where the blast occurred. Miraculously, given its ...

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 ...

In a now-infamous 2017 commercial that aired during that year’s Super Bowl, Kendall Jenner handed a police officer confronting furious protesters a can of Pepsi. The backlash of the ad, which aired as ...

Seven years after a dam holding mining sludge collapsed in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killing 272 people, mining giant Vale and its partner Itaminas are resuming operations at the very same ...

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 ...

Travis Van Isacker receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (Grant Ref: ES/W002639/1). The deaths of at least 31 people in the Channel on November 24 2021 were “avoidable”, ...

Above all, the first half of yesterday’s Spanish Cup semi-final first leg will haunt everyone who supports Barca for a long time to come. First, a catastrophic first touch by keeper Garcia led to an ...

NASA is putting the botched 2024 test flight of Boeing Co.’s Starliner capsule in the same category of disaster as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle accidents, underscoring the dramatic failures ...

The White House and America at large have much to celebrate after the last week of economic reports. Inflation is down, the labor market is robust, and people’s paychecks buy more than a year ago.