A factory collapse in Bangladesh became one of the deadliest industrial accidents in modern history. Packed with garment workers producing clothing for global brands, the building came crashing down.

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 ...

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 ...

This year, 248 construction sites temporarily halted operations at three major construction companies—POSCO E&C, Daewoo ...

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 ...

Over the past four years, Queensland’s mines, farms and other worksites have been ground zero for a spate of terrible ...

Shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 1984 — 40 years ago today — about 45 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of a Union Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Residents of ...

In a quiet but consequential move, the White House has announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by October 2026. While the agency may be small, ...

BERKELEY, CA — July 15, 2025 — To address a workforce shortage of engineers while avoiding industrial disasters caused by human error, AI startup IntuigenceAI announced what it calls a ...