Natural disasters are tending to kill fewer people but climate change may add to the toll by unleashing more extreme...
Disaster (Flood,Coastal,EQ,W-Fire,etc.) News
An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery Tuesday, killing one worker and pushing gasoline and diesel prices higher on...
BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was not caused by a single factor but by “multiple...
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck the Southern Island of New Zealand on Saturday, Sept. 4 miraculously caused no fatalities;...
Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into northeastern Mexico near the Texas border Monday, dumping heavy rain on a region still recovering...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft report that calls for a better, if limited, flood-protection system...
A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from...
A “larger but weaker” Hurricane Earl is heading for southeastern New England, the National Hurricane Center reported at 11 a.m....
Aon Benfield’s latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August,...
Hurricane Earl battered North Carolina’s coast with rain, winds and waves Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward...