While no single event since Katrina has exceeded 1,800 deaths, heat waves now routinely rank as the deadliest type of weather ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Two major disasters hit the city of Chania in Crete on December 8th in the space of only three years with a loss of more than ...

Floods rank as the world’s third deadliest climate disaster from 1995–2024, while becoming the second costliest globally with ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

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Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina ripped through our Gulf Coast, showing not only the fury of nature, but serious flaws in our federal disaster response system. The failure that ...

The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose sharply to 334 on Sunday, Sri Lanka’s disaster agency said on Sunday, with many ...

Nearly seven years after Paradise was ravaged by wildfire, the foothill town smells like pine trees again. New homes are sprouting up on once-scorched lots. Construction trucks rumble through ...