CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby ...

The Titanic sinking, the Chernobyl meltdown, and the Challenger disaster. Everybody knows the names and broad strokes of these tragic disasters, but the details of these stories are so much worse than ...

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Fukushima Report Hints at More 'Man-Made' Disasters in the Future Yes, the nuclear disaster at Fukushima was sparked by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, but a Japanese ...