Think your home insurance covers everything? These common disasters may leave you paying out of pocket unless you take extra ...

Researchers use mathematical modeling to probe whether cohesive communities are more resilient to extreme events, finding that emotional intensity and levels of stress play a big role.

Engineers have created a sophisticated computer model that tracks how water moves in estuaries -- which is critical for evaluating climate variability and sea level fluctuation impacts for coastal ...

Places like Maui and Asheville, North Carolina, rebuilding after wildfires and hurricanes, are doing so with a mind to ...

The disaster movie genre is as varied in quality as any other, containing true gems of films, and ones best left forgotten.

Gender norms affect the impact of natural disasters. Relief efforts must take that into account. The post Gender Inequality ...

and the appropriate charges will be discussed and made at a later date,” Sheriff Tommy Blankenship said in a March 21 statement. On Wednesday, the South Carolina Forestry commission called for ...

Jimmy McGann was one of just 705 survivors of the 1912 disaster. He served in the ship's engine room. His famous ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL boffins have unveiled a barmy plan to finally prove the existence of Noah’s Ark. The clever team at Noah’s Ark ...

I should have known better. I have seen what wildfire storms can do to cities and entire towns: Santa Rosa, Paradise, Redding ...

Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.