When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

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, ...

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Trump’s national energy emergency still has to follow environmental protection laws President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency invokes the National Emergencies Act, which allows the ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by Vale ...

A ship tries to put out the flames after the collision off the northeast coast of England on Monday. - Bartek Śmiałek/AP Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of ...

The incident meteorologist training for the National Weather Service was canceled amid “short staffing” and a severe reduction in how much employees are allowed to spend on travel, according to an ...

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 ...