Like a scar after a major injury, traces of Kepone remain buried in James River sediments — a reminder of how fragile ...

Rain poured over western Oregon and southwestern Washington beginning Thursday morning, December 18, creating a cascading ...

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 ...

Swollen rivers have cut off towns and swept away thousands of livestock in Outback Australia, authorities said as Prime ...

ALSO AT WTAE.COM. AND TODAY, NOVEMBER THE 5TH, A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER HISTORY DAY FOR THE MON VALLEY AS IT IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ELECTION DAY FLOOD FOR COMMUNITIES ALONG THE MONONGAHELA AND ...

Northern Queensland is battling a severe flood crisis as relentless monsoonal rains inundate communities. Coastal areas have ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil—a study found that fish in the Doce ...

The Townsville Local Disaster Management Group have said the Ross River Dam is close to 100 per cent capacity, with possible ...

November 19 marked 15 years since an explosion ripped through the underground Pike River Coal mine on the remote West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Twenty-nine workers were trapped in the mine.

Geography and its ecosystems uniquely shape the connections and boundaries that define regions. While society may seek to ...