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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Historian Gregory Wilson will give a free talk at the Library of Virginia in December about the Kepone environmental disaster, which caused the temporary closure of the James ...

The Indonesian government has announced what it describes as a sweeping, science-based effort to reassess environmental ...

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 ...

The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

Does climate change create or worsen disasters? Science answers “not really.” The evidence provides a slightly different conclusion from many of the headlines screaming disaster doom and gloom from ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...