Strikes to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could release long-lasting radioactive cesium 137 into the Persian Gulf, ...

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A timeline released by Hazmat officials of the response to the massive J&K fire describes how an environmental disaster unfolded.

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 ...

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 ...

A Russian tanker wrecked in an alleged Ukrainian attack is floating in the Mediterranean and could cause an 'unprecedented environmental disaster'. With no crew on board and a gaping hole in one side, ...

It’s bad enough that the company at fault considers the issue closed, but the Vietnamese government has effectively sided ...

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 ...