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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, ...

When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. Indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, a slew of boomtown-gone-bust mining ...

State documents show a contractor has recovered dozens of oil-covered and injured animals after the Smitty’s Supply Inc. environmental disaster in Tangipahoa Parish.

Mandatory masks are coming back to health-care facilities. Here’s why 9-year-old girl’s 1962 cold case murder is finally solved Cincinnati council candidate Kevin Farmer arrested in break-in at ...

Andy Dinsdale began walking the southern English coast in search of a “sea heart,” a tough Mahogany seed carried by ocean currents from Central and South American rainforests.

Environmental disasters have shaped the lives of children across the country. Devastating hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other environmental disasters have been linked to climate change by ...

After one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, Philip Raya, his wife and two young children drove through the wreckage of Lahaina – looking at bodies and the ashes of the town they once called ...