When Hurricane Helene slammed into North Carolina, it wasn’t just the typical floodwaters that posed a threat—it was the mountains themselves. Landslides, hazardous material spills, and widespread ...

International warnings are mounting over the risk of a large-scale environmental disaster if Iran continues targeting oil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that bananas, cassava, and cocoa grown near the 2015 Fundão dam collapse site contain elevated levels of toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ship tries to put out the flames after the collision off the northeast coast of England on Monday. - Bartek Śmiałek/AP Fears are ...

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, ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

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 ...