A federal judge refused to immediately reinstate Louisiana State University hurricane and coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden, who was stripped...
Disaster (Flood,Coastal,EQ,W-Fire,etc.) News
A Mississippi couple and the insurer they were suing over hurricane damage to their coastal home from Hurricane Katrina have...
A major eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius could result in 8,000 fatalities, 13,000 serious injuries and total economic losses of...
A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6-km (3.7 mile) high plume of ash and disrupted air...
Congress Thursday voted to restore jobless benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans who had lost them during a partisan...
West Virginia’s governor has asked a former top federal mine safety official to conduct an independent investigation of an explosion...
A computer error prevented the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an explosion last week from receiving...
The death toll from an earthquake in the mountainous Tibetan plateau in southwestern China has reached about 300, with more...
There are no reports of damage from a minor earthquake that struck Southwest Virginia. The National Geological Survey’s Web site...
Catastrophe bond issuance conditions saw sustained improvement in the first quarter of 2010, reflecting the increase in prominence of the...