Tornado season is starting, but don’t ask meteorologists how bad it will be this spring and summer. They don’t know....
Articles by Seth Borenstein
With the month of March looming, United States tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews...
Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes. Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns....
What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of...
On the heels of a Tesoro refinery blast in Washington that killed five people, an insurance company report obtained by...
U.S. oil refineries have an ongoing problem with accidents that turn deadly, losing four times as much money from such...
It’s a climate deal that has Europe feeling left out in the cold. The continent that used to take the...
Giant chunks of manmade space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government recently shot down — regularly...
Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions– like...
The main protection against collapsing bridges in America are the eyes and ears of inspectors like Jody Ferris, who on...