Over the last several decades, various types of natural disasters have wreaked havoc around the U.S., but which cataclysms have cost the most? The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) ...

A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to ...

When asked about their experiences, some respondents believe that natural disasters are just a given based on where they live. One shared, “I live in Florida, so hurricanes are a big part of my life.

A coalition of organizations is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to add extreme heat and wildfire smoke to its list of scenarios worthy of being labeled a major disaster. Dozens of ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

While the United States witnessed the most expensive climate disaster of this year, Asia accounted for four of the six ...

When you think of shipwrecks you may think of an older time when the ocean was the only way to cross the Atlantic and radar had yet to be invented. Indeed, scientists have estimated there are over 3 ...

Despite the name, “Community Disaster Resilience Zones” are not local havens capable of withstanding storms and other extreme weather. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA ...

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the issue ‘absolutely the worst I have ever seen.’ FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the issue ‘absolutely the worst I have ever seen.’ is a senior ...