California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give the coastal commission greater oversight over new owners trying ...

Galveston County alone is home to 22 refineries and chemical plants. Their level of emergency preparedness varies widely.

Nearly 2,000 dead fish have now been recovered following the Longview industrial disaster, and officials say that number could continue to rise as cleanup and flushing operations move forward.

After invading more than four years ago, Moscow has usually been the one causing ecological disaster. But Kyiv’s strikes, intended to cut into the Kremlin’s oil revenue, have flipped the script. By ...

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This story was published in partnership with Grist. It was produced as a project for USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism and Center for Climate Journalism and Communication 2025 Health and ...

For the third time in 12 days, the Russian Black Sea town of Tuapse woke up Tuesday to apocalyptic scenes. Thick toxic fumes, and flames rising up from the latest Ukrainian drone attack on the Rosneft ...

At least six small cities and towns in the Coastal Bend region of Texas issued disaster declarations in the last two weeks, begging not to be forgotten amid a spiraling water crisis. All attention ...

Environmental disasters affect both urban and rural communities, but rural communities tend to suffer more severely. In a study on a rural community in Odisha, India, a team of researchers examined ...

Just steps from the Persian Gulf in the Iranian coastal town of Bushehr sits the nation’s only nuclear power plant. Though a fragile ceasefire enacted on April 7 paused the bombing of Iran, the plant ...

An environmental disaster is looming, thanks to so-called renewable energy sources. The massive push in this century for alternatives to fossil fuels—mainly windmills and solar panels—has been one of ...

It’s bad enough that the company at fault considers the issue closed, but the Vietnamese government has effectively sided with a foreign corporation – and arrested those who dared to protest. April 06 ...