Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...

Here’s a “Dr. Strangelove”-sounding idea: drop three consecutive nuclear missiles on the same target. The Chinese military simulated this shock and awe scenario in a miniaturized lab experiment in ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The vast Soviet-built Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is being cooled by emergency diesel generators for a ninth day after an external power line was severed, ...

The earthquake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale. Its intensity and short duration immediately drew attention because it coincided with a pre-planned nationwide emergency preparedness drill in schools ...

Community at odds over government's proposal to build ominous underground facility: 'Nobody showed up and asked about our concerns' Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points ...

Around a half dozen vehicles from the Parks Township Volunteer Fire Department and Vandergrift EMS drilled for a potential emergency at a nuclear waste dump on Wednesday. Operated by the U.S. Army ...

Power lines supplying the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine have been cut off for over a week. That means that the plant, which is not currently generating its own power ...