The 1966 Aberfan Mining Disaster Posted: February 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Early on October 21, 1966, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste from the nearby mine slid from the hill above ...

A woman displaced after a landslide said "never in a million years" did she think her daughter would hear the same sounds as the people affected by the Aberfan disaster. Tina Honeyfield ...

Cwmtillery landslip repairs shown from above The destruction caused by the landslide reminded Tina of the Aberfan disaster which cost 116 children and 28 adults their lives. A colliery spoil tip ...

Almost one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster were still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 33 years on, a new study has said. On October 21 1966 a coal slagheap ...

THE CORONER was doing his best. He knew what the Establishment wanted — the usual mining disaster whitewash. Although the Aberfan disaster had taken the lives of 116 children and 28 parents, teachers ...

In response, architects like Chasen are embracing disaster-resilient designs. The Palisades house, which took six years to complete, incorporated defensible space: a border area from which ...

Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the holiday weekend and Tuesday, according to agency officials.

The concept of the “best” disaster movie is a complicated one. Of all movie genres, it’s arguably the one to which our conventional ideas of what makes a film “good” or “bad” are ...

In the first month of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the flow of executive orders and policy announcements from the White House has been extraordinary and dazzling, so much so that getting a ...

Liu Jiakun, the 2025 Pritzker Prize winner, has spent decades redefining Chinese architecture by combining utopia with function and social engagement with personal memory. His buildings are ...