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Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...

Fifty years after the James river’s closure, Virginia’s worst environmental disaster — one that sickened scores of citizens and crippled a vital industry — marks a nadir in the state’s ...

A ship tries to put out the flames after the collision off the northeast coast of England on Monday. - Bartek Śmiałek/AP Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of ...

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLAQUEMINE, La. — Fourteen years ago, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, sent flames shooting high into the sky about 40 miles off the coast ...

Disasters like earthquakes and flood destroy homes and generate vast amounts of waste. Is there a better, greener way to ...

The recent floods and landslides in Sumatra were not solely caused by illegal logging but also by legal deforestation ...

But last year, the environmental charity Hubbub found that 20% of adults who admitted to possessing a festive pullover wore ...