On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history killed 57 people in Washington state. The enormous column of ash that was unleashed by Mount St. Helens has been ...

(WBIR - Roane County) This weekend marks five years since one of the largest man-made environmental disasters in United States history unfolded right here in East Tennessee. On December 22, 2008, the ...

This article has been updated to include additional information. NEWBURGH — Standing outside an emergency management trailer Sunday afternoon just a few hundred feet away from the site of a ...

The utility industry is trying to roll back coal ash regulation passed after the 2008 Kingston disaster, and the EPA is listening. Even if you don’t live next to a coal plant, this could affect you.

In the two years since theTennessee coal ash disaster , the largest industrial spill in U.S. history, the state has failed to beef up laws to handle toxic waste from its coal-fired power plants, ...

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has revised its volcano disaster prevention plan to prepare for a potential eruption of Mount Fuji, incorporating for the first time specific measures such ...

Across history, some of the world’s most advanced cities have vanished beneath ash, mud, water, and sediment. Unlike cities ...