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

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

A bomb squad truck pulls into the Accurate Energetic Systems plant that stores explosives, after a blast resulted in multiple fatalities, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Bucksnort, Tennessee. [AP Photo/John ...

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

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 ...

A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks left the ...

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” ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Residents gathered Tuesday night in Glenside, just a mile away from the ...

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