On the night of September 27, 1994, the cruise ferry Estonia was sailing from Tallinn to Stockholm when disaster struck in the Baltic Sea. As powerful waves battered the ship, the bow visor failed and ...

From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

Imagine boarding a winter ferry in 1966, hearing howling winds and feeling the deck pitch beneath your feet, while heavy trucks and cars roll around inside like loose cargo. On December 8, 1966, the ...

Climate change is largely driven by human activity – industrial emissions and the overuse of natural resources. Those who study the field know that one of the most striking examples of environmental ...

Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...

The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident killed five men instantly through explosive decompression in the North Sea - a catastrophic incident caused by human error on the oil rig ...

Two rarely-seen deep-sea creatures recently washed up on a beach in Mexico and according to legend, it's not a good sign.