Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting “Ghosts of the Griffith: Disaster on Lake Erie” at 7 p.m. Nov. 13. The summer of 1850 was the scene of the worst shipping disaster in Lake ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby ...

In 1983, a diving crew aboard the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea prepared to surface after a routine job. But when a ...

The Pacific Northwest’s serene coastline may be hiding one of America’s most dangerous secrets. Scientists are now warning that a catastrophic mega tsunami, with waves potentially reaching 1,000 feet ...