Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

Commuters were left ducking for cover and huddling on the floor as explosions rang out from the roof of their train carriage.

Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in northeastern Ohio urgently warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so Sunday night, saying ...

Anyone plugged into environmental issues saw all kinds of stories about "bomb trains" last week, marking the first anniversary of a train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. That train was ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Well, this is becoming an unfortunate trend.

Wreckage from the latest oil train explosion hadn't been cleared from the crash site in West Virginia last week when President Obama vetoed legislation that would have approved construction of the ...