The National Weather Service says flood fatalities have gone up. There were 145 last year, compared to the 25-year average of ...

Europe's latest spell of sizzling heat, which ended last week, caused a threefold rise in heat-related deaths because ...

In the heart of California’s sun-drenched desert lies a body of water that once promised paradise but now harbors a toxic ...

History is filled with tragedies that have claimed many lives, from mining disasters to volcanoes and tsunamis. The world has never had a shortage of catastrophes over the centuries, but there are ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

A long-running man-made disaster persists in the Gulf of Mexico, where years of pesticide runoff, industrial waste and toxic chemicals entering the Mississippi River have created a so-called ‘dead ...

Are China’s Man-Made Islands Crumbling Into Ocean? China, for nearly a decade now, has been busy transforming the reefs and atolls and even constructing man-made military-base islands in the ...