Human injuries, however, are very rare. One of the worst recent sinkholes disasters in terms of casualties occurred in Canada in 2010, when a family of four died after their entire house was ...

deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." Cleaning up the damage from the spill in Crimea's Kerch Strait could cost Russia $14 billion ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Saturday that the Los Angeles-area wildfires will be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history and called for an ...

What’s waiting at the bottom of a sinkhole depends on how it was formed, but in the worst cases ... A similarly human-made disaster unfolded in 1980 when Lake Peigneur in Louisiana disappeared ...

A large portion of downtown Omaha lost power for several hours Thursday after a garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole where utility lines had become exposed. The truck became stuck around 8 a.m ...