The museum fire has been described as a result of the meticulous dismantling of Brazilian society by a government in the pocket of multinational conglomerates.
According to reporting, nearly forty people are dead after a trade union building was set fire in the port city.
In the first prosecution of garment industry factory owners, the Bangladeshi government has issued arrest warrants for the 2012 fire that killed 112 workers.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two garment factory owners and four of their employees on homicide charges for the deaths of 112 workers in a fire that engulfed the factory in 2012. It's the first time Bangladesh has sought to prosecute factory owners in the lucrative garment industry, which is
None hurt in the derailment of oil-hauling train, but 2,400 asked to evacuate while air quality is tested.
CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) — Many residents evacuated a southeastern North Dakota town overnight after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, and officials warned that acrid smoke could blow into the area. No one was hurt in Monday's derailment of the mile-long train that sent a great fireball and plumes of black smoke skyward about a
A look back at some of the fossil fuel disasters that made headlines in 2013, along with several others that went largely unnoticed.
While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fossil-fuel dependent world, with numerous pipeline spills, explosions, derailments, landslides, and the death of 20 coal miners in the U.S.
Western forests have been battered by natural disasters this summer.
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Drenching rain in the wildfire-blackened hills below Colorado's Pikes Peak sent a torrent of rock and mud into the tourist town of Manitou Springs this month, killing a 53-year-old man and smashing into dozens of houses. It had been more than a year since the enormous Waldo Canyon Fire roared across the slopes
At least 119 employees are reported dead after a fire at the Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in China’s northeastern Jilin province.
HONG KONG — A fire at a slaughterhouse in China's northeastern Jilin province has left at least 119 people dead and 54 injured. The blaze broke out just after 6:00 AM on Monday at a plant operated by Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company. Over 300 workers were at the plant when the fire started, according to
