More than 30 hours after the blaze began at Wang Fuk Court, there was still a sense that it is far from under control.

Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka. “He said there are children still stuck in the landslide, so he'll go and help them and come ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster exposed the dangers of BP’s offshore operations. From ignored warnings to engineering failures, the explosion caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

Sri Lanka’s Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce (WCIC) has appealed for urgent support as the island battles what officials and agencies describe as the worst flood disaster in the nation’s ...

A catastrophic earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone threatens to upend life across the Pacific Northwest. Scientists ...

The death toll from devastating floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka has exceeded 330 people, as the country grapples with one ...

The figures, released through the World Bank’s Global Rapid Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology, highlight the enormous ...

HONG KONG (AP) — The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more ...

Preliminary investigations showed the fire started Wednesday afternoon on a lower-level scaffolding net of one of the buildings, and then spread rapidly inside as the foam panels caught fire and blew ...

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby ...

Bob Dylan has been brutally honest about Self Portrait, admitting the 1970 release felt like a disaster and one he quickly ...