Powell County’s Judge Executive Eddie Barnes said the county’s search and rescue team had to execute several water rescues.

There were homes here once, but Yueyuan village is now a sweeping mud plain. Residents dig through the sludge where they think their bedroom once was. Maybe there is still a loved one under there.

Vanuatu has been in a perpetual state of recovery. How many disasters can one nation take? The China-built presidential palace sits atop Vanuatu's capital Port Vila overlooking its bay. ( ...

A new Mega Token was just discovered, and it’s in Natural Disaster Survival. Help an NPC, solve riddles and carefully choose disasters in order to finish this short but interesting challenge.

Among other recent disasters, in 2018 a wildfire trapped residents in the seaside town of Mati, killing 104 people who were waiting for evacuation. Survivors accused authorities of failing to ...

Home that survived Palisades Fire is destroyed in mudslide Los Angeles’ Bureau of Engineering said the cause of the landslide has not yet been determined, but rain and a possible water main ...

My childhood dream was to become a tornado chaser. Seriously, just ask my family because this natural disaster is something I talked about a lot, especially after seeing the movie “Twister ...

"From day one, the Trump administration has been eroding the nation's capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters," Moore told Reuters. "They've overseen the dismissal of 1,000 ...

Hundreds of thousands were displaced by climate disasters in 2024, according to the UN, underscoring the growing need for worldwide early warning systems to protect vulnerable communities.

KwaZulu-Natal’s continuous cycle of losing homes, rebuilding, and waiting for the next devastating floods has left communities emotionally drained and struggling to cope with the mental toll of ...

EM-DAT collates data on the occurrence and impacts of thousands of mass disasters worldwide and records both human and economic losses in a publicly available dataset. It relies on various sources ...