Late in the night, 76 prisoners of war (POWs) escaped through a secret 110m tunnel built under the Stalag Luft III prison camp in what was Nazi occupied Poland. The camp was reputed to be escape ...

Proposal to close State College in 1953, Pa. nuclear plant problem in 1979, Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, "Titanic" wins 11 ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made ...

oil tankers carry risk, as evidenced by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 that caused notable environmental harm. The Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound and released nearly ...

ExxonMobil has been forced to temporarily curtail oil production from its big Hibernia and Hebron fields offshore eastern Canada due to harsh weather and a lack of shuttle tankers. The supermajor ...

Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989. This resulted in an estimated 11 million gallons of oil spilling into the water ...

Rescuers are battling to avert an environmental disaster off the East Yorkshire coast after a toxic oil spill near key nature ...

Aerial footage has shown the extent of the damage after the Solong container ship collided with the Stena Immaculate tanker ...