The Spanish government on Tuesday described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country's worst environmental ...

As a result, insurance companies are trying to get out of high-risk areas, raise prices, and avoid paying out to ...

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 ...

Hurricane Katrina—which made landfall in Louisiana in August 2005—is among the worst natural disasters to ever hit the United ...

People have not grasped how much disasters already cost today, said Mami Mizutori, chief of the U.N. Office of Disaster Risk Reduction, “If we don’t get ahead of the curve, it will reach a ...

The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying. The midair collision that killed 67 near Washington, the fiery plane crash in Philadelphia ...

One recent disaster — Hurricane Helene — made landfall and flooded remote parts of the Appalachian Mountains, causing “biblical devastation” and record-breaking levels of death and ...

Dhami announced that special team of experts will study the disaster pattern in Uttarakhand and recommend means of mitigation.