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

Multiple people were killed after an explosion on Friday at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, and 19 people were ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

When disaster strikes, the aftermath is often measured in loss — but for some, it’s measured in profit. This documentary ...

Editor’s note: Tallying and monitoring the births and deaths of citizens is the most fundamental duty of any state, as such record-keeping is an acknowledgment of the very existence of the people that ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

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 ...

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” ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Residents gathered Tuesday night in Glenside, just a mile away from the ...