Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across ...

Modern engineering practices explicitly design concrete to be more resilient to earthquakes, but older buildings predate such ...

Eastern Canada has seen a rise in the number of hurricane- and near-hurricane strength events battering its maritime areas, ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

One Dawson Creek family physician told city council she’s seen the prevalence of rare cancers at an alarming frequency, and claims exposure to contaminants from nearby fracking is to blame.

Documents show the industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe ...

Minor earthquakes happen in and around New York more often than many people realize. This map shows where they’ve struck over the past decades — and how close some may have been to you.

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

MISSOURI — When most people think of earthquakes, they think of California fault lines. But the most active earthquake zone east of the Rocky Mountains runs straight through the middle of the country ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — State emergency officials are urging Missourians to take earthquake preparedness seriously as the state marks Earthquake Awareness Month throughout February. The Missouri State ...

In recent pages of the Canton Repository, a supposed scientist representing Save Ohio Parks drummed up scare tactics around fracking. Fracking is a big deal here because we have the natural resources ...