In April of 1986, what was intended to be a routine safety test at a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union turned into one ...

VIENNA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The Fukushima nuclear accident, while triggered by a natural disaster, was in essence a man-made disaster that exposed serious shortcomings in Japan's nuclear regulatory ...

BEIJING, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it plans a three-year campaign to tackle problems hampering response times during disasters and accidents including production safety lapses in ...

In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has expressed its readiness to draft a seven-year national disaster risk reduction strategy. The federal agency said this is meant to reduce cases of flooding, ...

Amaravati, Mar 26 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh was struck by four ghastly bus accidents within six months, which killed at least 45 ...

November’s Yellow Line accident should raise more than a few alarm bells this year; it should accelerate the facilitation of much-needed changes to ensure passenger and employee safety. This ...

I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...

Redwood Materials says it recycles the equivalent of more than 250,000 electric vehicles' worth of batteries, or more than 70 percent of the lithium-ion batteries and production scrap recycled in ...

India, Sept. 2 -- Road accidents remain outside the ambit of India's disaster management framework, weakening the urgency of response. It is time to treat road safety as a national priority, anchored ...