One of two engineers that faced disciplinary hearings over the 2014 collapse of the Mount Polley mine’s tailings pond has been fined and is no longer allowed to practise as a professional engineer in ...

The Weir-Jones Group, a Vancouver engineering firm specializing in early detection systems for earthquakes, landslides and oil and gas pipeline leaks, has joined the United Nations Disaster Risk ...

On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the Sichuan province of China caused nearly 90,000 people to lose their lives, with hospitals and schools filled with children ...

CBC Radio-Canada has obtained recorded telephone conversations between train engineer Tom Harding and a dispatcher from the night of the deadly rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que., last year that ...

We recently published a list of 10 Best Hurricane and Natural Disaster Stocks To Buy Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) stands against other best ...

Necessity is often said to be the mother of invention. Vermont engineer and hydrologist Stephen Farrington is proving that disaster can also be the impetus for creative problem-solving. Vermont news ...

Engineering has built the most spectacular wonders of the modern world, but what happens when the technology that people trust their lives with fails? Premiering on HISTORY Saturday, April 11 at 10 PM ...

LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — A train engineer and two colleagues were led past rows of Lac-Megantic townspeople and journalists Tuesday prior to their arraignment in Canada's deadliest railway blast. Engineer ...

In the ''nightmare scenario'' that haunts geotechnical engineer Frank Baumann, a torrent of debris thunders down a creek bed and crashes into a parking lot at Whistler, B.C., sweeping away skiers ...

Quebec police have launched a criminal investigation into the derailment of a runaway oil train that has killed at least 15 people and left about 60 still missing in Lac-Megantic. While in its early ...