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 ...

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 ...

There was an interesting discussion today at Rhode Island College from Dr. Christopher M. Reddy, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The Rhode Island ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

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 ...

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...

Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war ...

The role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in emergency response is part of the national response plan for disasters. The agency is involved in the preparedness and planning ...