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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 ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Historian Gregory Wilson will give a free talk at the Library of Virginia in December about the Kepone environmental disaster, which caused the temporary closure of the James ...

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, ...

The nation’s top emergency response agency has long been a lifeline for cities and states struggling with disaster. When hurricanes strike, earthquakes rattle, and tornadoes carve paths of destruction ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare ...

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 ...

But last year, the environmental charity Hubbub found that 20% of adults who admitted to possessing a festive pullover wore ...