Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...

International reinsurance company Swiss Re has released a study predicting that total global insured losses caused by natural disasters will hit $145 billion this year. However, the study also says ...

Vanuatu, a collection of over 80 islands in the South Pacific Ocean in Oceania, is a stark example of how fluctuating climate patterns have real-life impacts. According to Climate Change News, due to ...

BANGKOK – A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world's neediest people are suffering from serious food shortages, ...

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 ...

It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not ...

"By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, ...

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this.

Dominica, a Caribbean island state, has made some concrete policy, infrastructure and leadership progress in its quest to be ...