CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on Monday delivered a grim assessment of the state of President Donald Trump's economy. With stock ...

Here’s a closer look at some of the most infamous man-made disasters in history. Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989.

Man-made disasters are the worst. They are totally unnecessary. Yet we can learn from them, and what just happened in Sri Lanka is an eye-opener and offers warnings about food production for the ...

You may hear about natural disasters often, but some of the deadliest disasters in world history have been anthropogenic hazards (environmental disasters caused by human activity). For this list ...

Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby mountain. Their worst fears were soon to be ...

“This disaster, which affects even the Hondo Valley and the acequias down there … was all man-made,” said Mark Fischer, a Lincoln County Commissioner, during a meeting of the Legislature’s ...

Maybe it made sense back then ... Sometimes, though, we catch a glimpse of the damage when a natural disaster exposes the manmade disaster of the Jones Act. As they suffered, a ship off the ...

Those who survived were left to fight with heat and flames. Man-made disaster on National Geographic The series on National Geographic shows rare footage of how natural resources triggers disaster.

Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.