John “Jack” Reed spent 20 years and 25 days as a physical oceanographer for the U.S. Coast Guard, and one of the major ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - On March 24 of 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez struck the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound.

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

A vast body of research shows that every year, the shift to daylight saving time needlessly exacerbates various health risks, ...

Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, ...

Whether through accident or negligence, humanity has caused significant environmental damage to the Earth. Most recently (March 10), a collision between two ships has potentially spilled chemicals ...

Roughly 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill came the BP Deepwater Horizon oil incident, which became the largest accidental marine oil spill in history. In April 2010, an oil well on BP's ...