Tag: accidents

No country was spared by the global pandemic that exposed startling shortcomings within our deeply interconnected world. Like the virus, ...

Natural-gas shortages were a major culprit in the blackouts that left millions freezing in the dark in Texas last week, ...

You’d think the Texas blackouts would trigger some soul-searching about the vulnerability of America’s electrical grid. Not in today’s hothouse ...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, Japan was buffeted by crises. Economic stagnation left the country with dim prospects. An aging ...

U.S. air-safety regulators were considering whether to mandate increased inspections of certain Pratt & Whitney engines before one powering a ...

The U.S. plane maker Boeing said it supported decisions by airline regulators in Japan and the U.S. to suspend operations ...

Some businesses in Texas are hitting consumers when they’re down. Lina Hidalgo, the judge Harris County, the largest county in ...

In 2011 an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, killing 18,500 people, wiping away neighborhoods, depositing fuels, sludge and toxic chemicals ...

SYDNEY—Lawmakers from the U.K. and Canada criticized Facebook Inc.’s ban on Australian users sharing news articles, and they said the ...

Critical services and data infrastructure providers across Texas are racing to keep technology and operations running in the face of ...

SYDNEY—Australians were caught off guard by Facebook Inc.’s decision to remove news from its platform in a deepening spat with ...

While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a ...

As millions in Texas lost heat and electricity during a historic cold snap early this week, the future of renewable ...

Why are millions of Americans in the nation’s most energy-rich state without power and heat for days amid extreme winter ...

Power shortages show the folly of eliminating natural gas—and coal. Source

A day before the inauguration, as Lady Gaga rehearsed “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Washington, D.C., wildfires burned in Sonoma, Santa ...

When Boeing Co. ’s board had its first formal meeting around seven weeks after the initial 737 MAX crash in ...

TOKYO—An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 hit northern Japan on Saturday night, with significant shaking but no reports of major damage. ...

Pilots twice reported problems with automated engine controls on a Sriwijaya Air jet days before a malfunction involving the same ...

Boeing Co. ’s board failed to challenge then-Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg on the safety of the 737 MAX or his ...