MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery ~science biology.marine Article 2225 words, published Mar 7 2024 17 votes
What Boeing’s door-plug debacle says about the future of aviation safety ~transport Article 1993 words, published Feb 28 2024 13 votes
350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what? ~finance Article 1549 words, published Jan 23 2024 36 votes
Crooked House: Owners of wonky UK pub ordered to rebuild ~design architecture Article 792 words 22 votes
One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water ~enviro water.ground climate change Article 22 votes
Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela ~enviro Article 433 words 7 votes
Iceland plans to buy out home owners in volcano-struck town of Grindavík – total cost of the buyout could be as much as $440 million ~enviro Article 77 words 20 votes
Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest after fire ~enviro Article 393 words, published Mar 31 2023 16 votes
State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes ~enviro Article 460 words 22 votes
New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire ~enviro Article 3191 words 9 votes
Attempts to plant new Joshua Trees after destructive fires assisted by load carrying camels ~enviro Article 1157 words, published Feb 2 2024 16 votes
US rail safety legislation still stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster ~transport Article 856 words 36 votes
Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again. ~enviro Article 1055 words 25 votes
Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ~books Article 4205 words 5 votes
Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse? ~enviro climate change Link 12 votes
How a huge rainfall simulator helps Japan study and prevent landslides ~engineering Video 15:02, published Jan 26 2024 8 votes
A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it? ~enviro pollution.ground water Article 501 words 19 votes
Russia State Duma to prepare statement to US Congress and German parliament regarding Belgorod plane crash ~transport Link 17 votes
Iceland battles a lava flow – countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past, but it's hard to stop molten rock ~enviro Article 662 words 9 votes
Iceland residents of Grindavík, first evacuated in November, have been told to evacuate again after volcanic fissures opened ~enviro Article 17 votes
Saving the drought stricken Panama Canal will take years and cost billions, if it’s even possible ~transport Article 1542 words, published Jan 7 2024 11 votes
Planes collide and catch fire at Japan’s busy Haneda airport, killing five. Hundreds evacuated safely. ~transport Article 324 words 26 votes
Japan's 7.6-magnitude earthquake lifted land out of the sea, extending parts of its coastline by as much as 820 feet ~enviro Article 275 words 40 votes
Powerful quake rocks Japan, nearly 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate ~enviro Article 155 words 37 votes
After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes ~enviro Article 1685 words 12 votes
A man blew up his apartment in Japan while trying to kill a single cockroach with way too much insecticide, police say ~news japan crime Article 264 words 41 votes
‘Green roads’ are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods ~enviro water Article 2011 words 9 votes
US emergency risk index used for allocating disaster prevention and mitigation spending ignores coastal Washington tsunami risk and other predictable disasters ~enviro Article 266 words 9 votes
House explodes in Arlington VA, as police attempt to execute search warrant ~news usa.va.arlington crime Article 231 words 25 votes
Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies ~design architecture Video 13:50, published Nov 30 2023 12 votes
Weather extremes threaten food security (2012) ~enviro climate change Article 979 words, published Feb 24 2012 9 votes
Bamboo rising: Lari Octa Green shelters by Yasmeen Lari in Sindh province, Pakistan ~design architecture Link 4 votes
In the face of mounting climate risks, the US insurance safety net is falling apart ~enviro climate change Article 2804 words 42 votes
Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist explains eruptions in the land of fire and ice ~enviro Article 968 words, published Nov 15 2023 6 votes
Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of how your clothes got their color ~life.style Article published Nov 13 2023 13 votes
Icelandic authorities are building protective walls around a geothermal power plant in the country's southwest to protect it from possible lava flows ~enviro energy.renewable Article 13 votes
Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news ~enviro Article 77 words 15 votes
Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes raised fears of a Fagradalsfjall volcanic eruption ~enviro Article 38 words 36 votes
Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply ~science biology Article 1329 words 12 votes
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (1976) ~music singer songwriter folk Video 5:58, published Apr 28 2019 17 votes