Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Dr. Musadik Malik has warned of escalating economic and human toll ...

Heavy rainfall from an atmospheric river triggered mudslides in the Los Angeles area on Jan. 9, 2023. Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG via Getty Images Rivers of muddy water from heavy ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deaths, economic damage and other negative impacts from disasters have caused losses equivalent to 42 million life years annually since 1980, a measure that is ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

Civil and environmental engineers have formulated a method to predict human movement during large-scale extreme events with the goal of enabling more effective emergency responses. The model also ...

A new season premieres on Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, March 26, at 9/8c. Tim Evans After a condominium building collapsed in Miami in 2021, the community rallied around the victims’ families. Jeff ...

When disasters strike — whether floods, earthquakes, forest fires, or cyclones — success in rescue and relief operations often depends not only on the courage of responders but equally on the quality ...

FILE PHOTO: A search and rescue team works with sniffer dogs to recover bodies in from the Mzinyathi River after heavy rains caused flooding near Durban FILE PHOTO: A search and rescue team works with ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods that inspired ancient myths, nature has always had the power to rewrite ...