Notably, 2025 was the first year in over a decade when the U.S. was not impacted by a major hurricane. Still, largely due to the LA Wildfires, 2025 will go down as one of the worst years for natural disasters in the U.S. in recent memory.

Climate disasters cost the world more than $120bn (£95bn) in 2025, with the true toll expected to be far higher as the deadliest events in poorer countries were largely uninsured and undercounted, a new analysis has found. The review of extreme weather ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin America’s Deadliest Disasters In 1985 the Nevado del ...

They arrived in Gauley Bridge by the dozens, and then by the hundreds, until their numbers reached into the low thousands, swarming the tiny West Virginia town with the kind of hope that’s hard to tell from desperation. Some of the men were as young as ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods that inspired ancient myths, nature has always had the power to rewrite human history in a single, cataclysmic moment.

Opposition MPs accuse officials of trying to bury a report that blames a known design flaw for the nation’s deadliest crash.

Scores of people have been killed after a powerful quake sparked a tsunami with waves as high as 1.5 metres (five feet) that smashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Harrowing video showed waves of water bringing down several buildings and inundating a ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of Chernobyl may be evolving at a different rate due to the ...

ARMERO, Colombia — Touring the ruins of this once-bustling farm town, veterinarian Fernando Angarita points to the overgrown lots where the bakery, the hospital and the Presbyterian church once stood. Amid the rubble sits a boulder the size of a cargo ...