Shaw told the planning meeting: "This development is within 100 yards of where the former Dawdon Colliery was. "We had 100 years of extracting coal, which had a huge impact on the environment.

The colliery worked the rich Banbury and Bullhurst seams. Ominously, the Minnie already had a reputation for being a jinx pit, with previous fatalities and frequent accidents. The disaster (on ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...

“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he declared on social media last week. But by many traditional metrics, the America that Mr. Trump will inherit from President ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with greater ...

Disaster movies depict large-scale destruction, either natural or otherwise. Lately, filmmakers have mainly resorted to alien invasion stories, zombie attacks, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, or space ...

For most living in the area, the illegal rave in a building at a former Gwent colliery site was a nuisance, but for one man it was a home invasion. A man has been living in the derelict building ...

Indian authorities say they have moved hundreds of tonnes of hazardous waste remaining more than 40 years after the world’s deadliest industrial disaster struck the city of Bhopal. The waste ...

THERE ARE few tougher jobs in Syria. On December 30th the country’s interim government named Maysaa Sabrine to head the central bank. A former deputy governor of the bank and the first woman ...

"I Am Disappointed in Architects" Shigeru Ban on Socially Conscious Architecture in Louisiana Channel Interview Shigeru Ban Architects, in collaboration with The Glass House and The Irwin S ...

No-one could be blamed for the underground explosion which killed 57 miners at Sneyd Colliery in North Staffordshire's last major pit disaster. But that was small consolation for the families of the ...

No-one could be blamed for the underground explosion which killed 57 miners at Sneyd Colliery in North Staffordshire's last major pit disaster. But that was small consolation for the families of ...