Throughout history, humanity has strived to understand and control the forces of nature: building dams to hold back raging rivers, planting forests to prevent erosion, whatever it took. Yet despite ...

Every century has a few events so destructive that they leave people standing directly in the path of whatever the earth or sea delivers. Some made it out. Many didn’t. From cyclones to floods and ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear ...

Why we should stop using the term "natural disaster" to describe hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, floods and other natural ...