Damage is seen at Tyndall Air Force Base following a hurricane in 2018. (Image via U.S. Government Accountability Office) The U.S. Department of Defense has not sufficiently tracked the cost of ...

Nature issues warning signals long before disaster strikes, and scientists track many of these patterns in weather and geology research. Pressure changes, seismic energy shifts, and environmental ...

Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

HONG KONG, Jan 16 (Reuters) - China's direct economic losses from natural disasters totalled 241.6 billion yuan ($34.7 billion) in 2025, with more than 700 people dead or missing, more than 3 million ...

Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers. For the first time in a decade, the U.S. was spared by a direct hurricane hit in 2025. But claim costs for non-peak ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture Rick Pate announced Friday that 19 counties are being designated by the US Department of Agriculture as primary natural disaster areas due ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was the gravest natural disaster to strike Italy during the peak of the Roman Empire, killing more than a thousand people in nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny ...

I urge state legislators to take proactive measures to protect Oregon families from natural disasters before more communities suffer the way folks in Clackamas County are now, (“Oregon coast flooding ...

WAYLAND, Ky. — Mayor Jerry Fultz steps out of his car and stands at the foot of the last road before the creek, where the specter of flooding is reshaping his hometown. A dog trots through fresh ...

The volcanic eruption that struck the Roman resort city of Pompeii may be the most famous natural disaster in human history. But one critical detail about the catastrophe continues vexing experts: the ...

Architects are uniquely positioned to help people displaced by natural disasters. By Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, humanitarian and educator. This personal reflection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rising magma beneath a recently erupted volcano can lead to the collapse of the volcano's slopes. An article in Phys.org said the ...