While smart and energy-efficient buildings tend to grab headlines, in countries like Japan where earthquakes are a regular event, these important factors are often downgraded to ‘nice-to-haves’ behind ...

Because when disaster comes, it does not wait for us to be ready. That morning, it may have come knocking on our doors, but if we continue to trim our forests and leave our mountains bare, it won’t ...

This is the incredible true story of how a student’s curiosity exposed a catastrophic flaw in a major NYC skyscraper. Had the ...

TV fans are only just discovering one “masterpiece” CBS miniseries from the 1990s based on one of the bestselling disaster ...

Legions of police officers from Hong Kong's Disaster Victim Identification Unit, dressed in white full-body protective gear, ...

The death toll from a massive fire at Wang Fuk Court, a 32-floor residential high-rise complex in Hong Kong’s Tapo district, has risen to at least 128 as of the 28th. With around 270 people still ...

A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 83 people with many more still ...

COMMENT: Experts say traditional materials allowed the fire to spread from one tower block to another, engulfing seven in ...