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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods ...

A timeline released by Hazmat officials of the response to the massive J&K fire describes how an environmental disaster unfolded.

We are told that 2030 is a significant year for global sustainability targets. What could we really achieve comprehensively from now until then, especially with climate change dominating so many ...

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...

Abandoned Russian tanker could explode in Mediterranean at any time and cause ‘ecological disaster’, says EU - The tanker carrying 700 metric tonnes of fuel and natural gas could ‘explode at any momen ...

A Russian tanker wrecked in an alleged Ukrainian attack is floating in the Mediterranean and could cause an 'unprecedented environmental disaster'. With no crew on board and a gaping hole in one side, ...