Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like ...

The Santa Paula Historical Society will host local journalist Peggy Kelly on March 12 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Santa Paula ...

Dams are built to control nature, but when they break, the damage can erase entire towns overnight. This video revisits nine of the worst dam disasters on record, what caused each collapse, and the ...

On the night of October 9, 1963, a massive landslide plunged into the reservoir behind Italy’s 264-meter-tall Vajont Dam, triggering one of Europe’s worst engineering disasters. The impact generated a ...

This year’s tour of the site of the 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon is scheduled for Saturday, May 16, and tickets are available now (and going quickly!) The tour takes ...

LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining giant BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse 10 years ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...

Jamie Woodward has received funding from research councils in the UK and Australia. Jeff Warburton has received funding from UK research councils. Stephen Tooth has received research funding from ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...

LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...