Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing ...

The deadly project killed more than 750 workers, the company scrambling to bury the dead before anyone knew they were gone.

Some stories have mundane beginnings, while others strike like lightning. Only occasionally is it both. In today’s newsletter ...

A bomb squad truck pulls into the Accurate Energetic Systems plant that stores explosives, after a blast resulted in multiple fatalities, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Bucksnort, Tennessee. [AP Photo/John ...

Climate change is the big elephant in the room, and you can’t really talk about stronger disasters without mentioning it. As ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing in ...

In a quiet but consequential move, the White House has announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by October 2026. While the agency may be small, ...

Shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 1984 — 40 years ago today — about 45 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of a Union Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Residents of ...