As data for the final days of last year trickles in from around the country and around the ...

Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern U.S. history — but nature wasn’t the only cause. The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme weather events have always shaped the course of history, altering civilizations, economies, and even the landscape of ...

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 ...

Natural disasters set records in both cost and frequency last year, according to a report from the nonprofit Climate Central.

Scores of people have been killed after a powerful quake sparked a tsunami with waves as high as 1.5 metres (five feet) that smashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Harrowing video showed waves of ...

Houston – This year marks the 125th anniversary of the great Galveston hurricane of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. To honor that chapter of Texas history, two Houstonians have ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

WASHINGTON — A new nationwide survey is out, highlighting the natural disasters Americans fear the most, and some of the results were not surprising. Here’s what the study by Talker Research survey ...