Natural disasters

An umpire at a little league baseball game saved a child from a dust devil.

How long can trapped people survive in the rubble of an earthquake?

A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked back at U.S. weather events in 2022 and found the year was third most expensive for the country in 43 years.

Rescuers in Malaysia have found the bodies of a mother and her son, raising the death toll from a landslide

Philippine officials say at least 31 people have died and nine others are missing after flash floods and landslides were set off by torrential rains that swamped a southern province overnight.

Rescuers continue to search for survivors in flooded homes in Florida after Hurricane Ian’s passage earlier this week.

Ian’s fierce winds howled through a Gulf Coast trailer park with such force that residents felt they would be lifted off the ground, even blown away.

Whether your house is in an area prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, hail or wildfires, it’s important to know what your insurance covers or excludes.

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges arising from the squalid conditions. Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 68, had already lost state licenses and federal funding for crowding his residents into a…

La Niña, the flip side of the better known El Niño weather condition, keeps popping up. La Niña is the natural but temporary cooling of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide.

Water agencies serving roughly 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland will receive less water than they requested for this year from state reservoirs.

The Rockies and Blue Ridge Mountains are two of the top 10 ranges worldwide for holidays as recently ranked by U.K. outdoor clothing and gear outfitter Blacks.

As a major winter storm descends on Texas, crypto miners are powering down operations to help ease the burden on the state’s already beleaguered power grid. 

Extreme weather exposed the enormity of Asia’s underinsurance against natural disasters due to climate change, compared to the rest of the world.

The warning comes as California grapples with worsening wildfire seasons, water shortages and historic drought conditions fueled by climate change.

Close to 3,000 U.S. flights scheduled for Saturday were canceled.

Bill Gates has stressed the urgent need for businesses to step up and invest in emerging green technologies as the fight against climate change intensifies.

In the last five years, from 2017 through 2021, the total cost of these billion-dollar disasters has been $742 billion, according to NOAA.

Other stranded drivers in Virginia were forced to turn off their cars to conserve gasoline, even as temperatures plunged below freezing overnight.