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In an off economy, certain industries are still able to flourish. The "green sector" is one that traditionally wouldn't be a top priority for growth, but this particular recession has seen an explosion in environment-related careers.

A powerful explosion rocked a mine in eastern Ukraine early Friday, killing 16 workers, emergency officials said.

Financial pressures may have led a New Zealand coal mining operation to overextend itself before an explosion killed 29 workers last year, an energy executive testified Monday at an inquiry into the country's worst mine disaster in decades.

Two people have died after a major explosion at an oil refinery in Wales, sources have said.

As attention moves away, at least for now, from the explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu plant and how it happened, analysts begin to chime in on how the blast will affect iPad 2 production, and Apple's bottom line, as well.

Foxconn has confirmed, as of Sunday, that a third employee has died as a result of injuries suffered in Friday night's explosion at the Chengdu Foxconn plant.

Life-saving airtight refuge chambers stored deep inside the Upper Big Branch mine when an explosion tore it apart and killed 29 miners worked properly when tested last week, West Virginia's mine safety chief said Wednesday.

The flow of Egyptian gas to Israel has resumed after more than a month's halt following an explosion during unrest in Egypt.

An explosion Saturday at a Japanese power plant destroyed the building housing the plant's nuclear reactor, according to published media reports.

An explosion went off at a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, setting off a massive fire that could be seen dozens of miles away, officials and witnesses said.