Disasters/Accidents

HONG KONG—Rescuers have recovered one of the black boxes from the Boeing 737 plane that crashed in southern China, the country’s air-safety regulator said Wednesday. Authorities are still working to verify…

FORT WORTH, Texas—A Federal Aviation Administration training specialist said a former Boeing Co. BA -3.59% pilot lied to her about how a 737 MAX flight-control…

General Motors Co. GM 0.93% and PG&E Corp. PCG 3.14% plan to test the use of electric vehicles to power…

Weeks of warnings from Western security officials that cyberattacks in Ukraine could spread globally have pushed international companies into an uncomfortable waiting game.Worst-case scenarios for hacks that wreak havoc on the digital…

One of my earliest childhood memories is waking up at 3 a.m. to the sound of my father, Sid, shoveling our driveway. When it came to snowstorms, his philosophy was shovel early, shovel often. The wheels came off this philosophy during the…

SYDNEY—SpaceX, the space-exploration company founded by Elon Musk, is seeking to establish a communications bridge to Tonga after last month’s volcanic eruption and tsunami largely cut the Pacific nation off from the…

A federal judge dismissed part of the criminal case against a former Boeing Co. BA 0.64% pilot accused of misleading air-safety regulators about faulty software that…

Pro-China accounts have been flooding Twitter with messages that include the hashtag #GenocideGames, in what researchers say is an effort to dilute the hashtag’s power to galvanize criticism of the Winter Olympics host nation.Human-rights…

BOULDER, Colo.—For almost five years, an international consortium of scientists was chasing clouds, determined to solve a problem that bedeviled climate-change forecasts for a generation: How do these wisps of water vapor affect global…

Costs related to the incident have continued to rack up, Brazilian authorities have been slow to permit further mining amid safety concerns, simmering tensions between the miner and locals have resulted in a shower of lawsuits and some…