A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for ...

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 ...

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Researchers warn of potentially toxic elements in bananas grown in the Mariana disaster region of Brazil, where the Fundão dam broke in 2015. According to the results, this fruit, as well as cassava ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Historian Gregory Wilson will give a free talk at the Library of Virginia in December about the Kepone environmental disaster, which caused the temporary closure of the James ...

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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, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...

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The majority of Indonesians consider the Ministry of Forestry to be the party most responsible for the causes of the Sumatra ...