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, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...

A new IAEA research project will investigate how artificial intelligence can be used to strengthen non-destructive testing techniques used in disaster response. The project aims to enable faster, ...

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 ...

The San Mateo City Council will be holding a study session Nov. 3 discussing the Hillsdale Mall Project. Currently the project is projected to produce 2,100,000 square feet of commercial space and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. There’s one line in the sprawling, 900-hundred page document known as Project 2025 ...

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 ...

A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing changes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ...

The Supreme Court issued notice on a plea questioning the legality of Teesta-III dam reconstruction and disinvestment, citing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing ...