Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site ...

Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster ...

Around the world, homes are becoming harder to buy, sell, and insure because of climate change. Many families are discovering ...

December 2, 1984 The Bhopal Gas disaster, when a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant, exposes over 500,000 people to the ...

Researchers describe this potential disaster as the “polder effect.” Unlike regular floods, where water eventually drains ...

Claudia Ncutinamagara, a Burundian mother in Kakuma refugee camp, faces dire food shortages as aid cuts leave her family ...

The UN’s World Food Programme has a reputation for handing out large quantities of food in disaster zones and then moving on.

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine ...

At a time when Sri Lanka and a few countries in Southeast Asia are struggling to recover from a post-cyclonic devastation it ...

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Concerns about a future outage are particularly acute as demand for electricity rises with the rapid growth of data centers.