Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly threats are actually caused by human error ...

NEW DELHI— On August 11, 1997, the quiet valleys of Chirgaon in Himachal Pradesh turned into a nightmare as a cloudburst triggered massive floods and landslides, killing over 200 people. The tragedy ...

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 ...

Monika Graff / Getty Images Dr. Latoya Storr was an emergency medicine physician for a hospital in Grand Bahama when Hurricane Dorian ripped across the island in 2019. The hospital flooded four feet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...

In this episode of Tiny Matters, Sam and Deboki unravel two very different environmental disasters: Hurricane Katrina and this year’s Ohio train derailment. They’ll cover the science underlying those ...

Is Hurricane Katrina “our tsunami,” as the mayor of Biloxi, Miss., A.J. Holloway, has said? Does it make sense to compare today’s disaster to a catastrophe that killed upward of 200,000 impoverished ...