environmental disaster

In the early hours of 1 November 1986, the Rhine was still one of Europe’s great working rivers. It flowed…

The story of the Love Canal disaster begins decades before chemical contamination entered public awareness, rooted instead in a failed…

In the early 20th century, the internal combustion engine faced a persistent problem known as engine knocking. It was caused…

On a stormy November day in 2002, the Greek-owned oil tanker MV Prestige began to break apart off the coast…

The Bhopal gas tragedy, which occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984, in Bhopal, India, is one of the…