Scientists' camera traps offer a snapshot into the secret lives of wildlife inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

"The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives."

A group of migrants trying to reach European opportunity via what's billed by smugglers as a "safe" route — trekking along train tracks through the Balkans — was hit by an overnight train in a remote river gorge in Macedonia, killing 14. The deaths of the undocumented migrants from Africa and Asia underscore how, even as tens of thousands risk drowning in the Mediterranean to reach European shores...

Calbuco volcano erupts in Chile sending smoke and ash into the sky. The authorities have declared a red alert and evacuated more than 4,000 people.

Poultry producers in several states are bracing for more losses as a highly contagious strain of avian influenza has forced farmers to lose more than 7 million chickens and turkeys in the USA in recent weeks.

Fifty years ago, this prosperous Pennsylvania coal town was ripped apart by a devastating subterranean mine fire. Today, the flames still burn in Centralia.

After a series of deadly accidents, Congress created an office to oversee the nation’s oil and gas pipelines. A decade later, it’s become the can’t-do agency.

In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, electricity-starved Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to get power from a lake—and avert catastrophe.

Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard says. A major rescue operation is under way after the vessel, thought to be just 20m (70ft) long, capsized at midnight local time in Libyan waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. So far 28 people have been rescued and 24 bodies retrieved.

A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. natural gas pipeline near Fresno erupted in a fireball Friday afternoon — injuring at least 11 people and temporarily closing down Highway 99 — after a tractor operator accidentally punctured the 12-inch line, authorities said. Eleven victims were transported to hospitals, where officials said four were in critical condition, two were in serious condition and the remainder suffered minor injuries.

SpaceX once again successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with supplies for the International Space Station. The booster that launched the payload was then supposed to return, landing on a platform (at sea). Well, that didn’t go so well. The booster crashed on landing. Landing a rocket in this manner is clearly a difficult task. ( Here is my previous explanation.) Maneuvering a tall rocket using the main thrusters would be like balancing a vertical broom on your hand and then...

About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year. The boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, flipped about 24 hours after leaving the Libyan coast, according to some of the 150 survivors who were rescued and taken to a southern Italian port this morning, Save the Children reported.

California regulators approved a record $1.6-billion fine against the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. , even as the new president of the Public Utilities Commission publicly questioned the company’s commitment to safety.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may have spiked his flight captain’s coffee with a diuretic that made him need to go to the toilet. Lubitz, 27, made internet searches for diuretic drugs before he crashed the Airbus 320 into the French Alps on March 24 - killing all 150 people on board, Express.de reports. Investigators are believed to have found the information on Lubitz’s laptop but are yet to comment on the information publicly.

The last F5 tornado, using the old Fujita rating system, in KS touched down on April 26, 1991. The town of Andover, located near Wichita, was not prepared for a storm of this scale. The aftermath of the twister showed residents and emergency management officials within Tornado Alley why being prepared and having a plan is so important. Fortunately, the town was also able to show that recovery and rebuilding was possible.

Until 2008, earthquakes in Oklahoma were rare. Now they’re a daily event, and the oil industry may be to blame. In the fall of 2011, students in Katie Keranen’s seismology course at the University of Oklahoma buried portable seismograph stations around the campus, in anticipation of a football game between the Sooners and the Texas A. & M. Aggies. The plan was to see if the students could, by reading the instruments, detect the rumble of eighty-two thousand fans cheering for a touchdown.

The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas travelled the world to document sightseers at Auschwitz, Chernobyl, and other disaster sites.

In the minutes before a 2010 plane crash that killed Poland's president, members of the president's entourage urged the crew to land despite thick fog, according to what a radio station said was a leaked transcript of cockpit conversations. In the transcript, the crew on several occasions ask people to be quiet or to leave the cockpit, and conversations suggest people in or around the cockpit were drinking beer, though there is no indication the crew themselves consumed alcohol.

A driver who ignored an injured elderly woman by the roadside later found out that the victim was his own mother, the Anhui Business Daily reported. The man from Nanling county in Wuhu city was on his way to visit his mother early one morning last week when he spotted the badly hurt old woman next to the road. “My car does not have a dashboard recorder, so I didn’t stop,” he was quoted as saying.

Scientists say a chemical used to cleanup the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill could have caused health problems, but BP denies it.