From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

When the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground 30 years ago, some of south Wales' best-known beaches turned black. Thousands of seabirds were killed off a globally significant stretch of coastline for ...

The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a restless mountain collapsed into the sea in 1792, the impact hurled a towering ...