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

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

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

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

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

THE Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s worst ...

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” ...

The second explosion was caused by grain dust, which can be 35 times more explosive than TNT. Nearby homes had to be ...

President Lee Jae-myung’s determination to eradicate industrial accidents is resolute. At a Cabinet meeting, he instructed, ...

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 ...

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 ...