In January 2026, winter storms Fern and Gianna swept across the southern and eastern United States, leaving millions without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Regions such ...

Sen. Jeff Wilson is urging patience and compassion as Longview continues to mourn the victims of the deadly Nippon industrial disaster. Speaking from the scene, Wilson described a grieving community ...

Natural disasters vary widely across the United States depending on geography and climate. Some regions regularly experience hurricanes or wildfires, while others face blizzards, floods, tornadoes, or ...

We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Matters is ...

The screams. The bodies lying across the freeway. The people trying to run away from a toxic cloud before collapsing to the ground. Fifty years later, retired Houston firefighters say they still ...

For more than a century, coal mining’s deadliest disasters have exposed the persistent dangers of methane, coal dust, flooding and collapse underground. From Benxihu to modern Shanxi, these ...

More than 110 million people were affected by 358 reported disasters in 2025, according to the annual report by the Emergency Events Database. The year was consistent with a typical year of disaster ...

The Johnstown Flood killed 2,200 people and changed America’s approach to disaster relief, dam safety, and public ...

On March 18, 1925, one of the most devastating weather disasters in American history tore across the Midwest. Known as the Tri-State Tornado, this apparent single storm carved a path of destruction ...