Natural disasters are devastating events that have the potential to cause huge amounts of damage and loss of life. Globally, around 60,000 people die each year as a result of disasters such as ...

New research from the University of Colorado Denver shows many communities fail to take historic preservation into account when planning for natural disasters, risking a loss of heritage and critical ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Fifteen years ago, the world watched in horror as Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in its recorded history — a catastrophic event that unleashed a deadly tsunami, upended millions of ...

ST. ELIZABETH PARISH, Jamaica – The scope of the historic disaster that is the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa is just starting to come into focus a week after the record-setting storm made landfall ...

Kentucky has suffered a series of historic disasters in recent years, forcing local communities to adapt. Disaster-stricken towns across the state are taking steps to ease the pain of the next storm, ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT.