Natural disasters have become some of the most expensive shocks to the U.S. economy, reshaping entire regions in a matter of ...

Heatwaves ranked even lower on the list of scariest disasters, a distant seventh place with just 6% of the vote. An interesting tally given that heatwaves are by far the deadliest natural disaster in ...

Texas: A Disaster Magnet Where Fear Runs Deep Walking through any Texas neighborhood after a major weather event feels like ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

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 ...

Natural disasters, from sweeping hurricanes to destructive floods, are painfully preserved into the memory of people in the United States. While statistics help showing the amount of damage they ...

The flood currently devastating Louisiana is the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy, the Red Cross says, according to CNN. Suggested Reading Black Internet Explodes ...

One of the worst natural disasters to hit Connecticut struck 70 years ago. On Aug. 19, 1955, rivers across the state raged out of their banks, destroying entire villages and killing nearly 100 people.

Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka. “He said there are children still stuck in the landslide, so he'll go and help them and come ...

The death toll in Sri Lanka has increased to 334, with 370 people still missing after catastrophic landslides and flooding ...