According to statistics compiled by South Korea’s Labor Ministry, deaths from industrial accidents regularly top 2 thousand ...

Some stories have mundane beginnings, while others strike like lightning. Only occasionally is it both. In today’s newsletter, we share the story behind our new feature on the disaster industrial ...

Whatever chain of events in the aircraft’s systems led to catastrophe, the ultimate cause is ruthless pursuit of profit by ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing in ...

A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks left the ...

In a quiet but consequential move, the White House has announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by October 2026. While the agency may be small, ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Residents gathered Tuesday night in Glenside, just a mile away from the ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

President Lee Jae-myung’s determination to eradicate industrial accidents is resolute. At a Cabinet meeting, he instructed, “Building a safe society is the state’s responsibility, and comprehensive ...