While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans ...
Every Melburnian knows the West Gate Bridge, crossing the Yarra River north of its exit to Port Phillip Bay. It looms, it ...
In 1988, Piper Alpha became the scene of the worst offshore oil disaster in history when a chain of explosions turned the giant North Sea platform into a collapsing firestorm. Helicopter footage ...
During a violent North Sea storm, more than 200 men were sheltering on an offshore platform when they heard a sudden metallic ...
The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.
Strikes on Ukrainian energy systems have tripled this winter. Continuous repairs and Western aid staved off a total breakdown ...
A newly filed wrongful death lawsuit is shedding light on the moments leading up to a catastrophic explosion that claimed the life of a local mother, a Lee County EMT, last September.
The gruelling task of demolishing the remains of a landmark Glasgow building destroyed by an inferno has begun – with workers taking it down brick by brick. Suspended more than 150ft in the air by ...