Some stories have mundane beginnings, while others strike like lightning. Only occasionally is it both. In today’s newsletter ...

Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing ...

The deadly project killed more than 750 workers, the company scrambling to bury the dead before anyone knew they were gone.

Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

Multiple people were killed after an explosion on Friday at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, and 19 people were ...

When disaster strikes, the aftermath is often measured in loss — but for some, it’s measured in profit. This documentary ...

THE Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s worst ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing in ...

The second explosion was caused by grain dust, which can be 35 times more explosive than TNT. Nearby homes had to be ...