Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

ASHEVILLE - The North Carolina Department of Enviromental Quality has funded the creation of "microgrids" in Western North Carolina after responding to critical power failures across the state in the ...

The catastrophic weather event, known as the “White Hurricane,” struck the Great Lakes between November 7-11, 1913, bringing ...

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 ...

In this riveting sequel to our exploration of the world's most catastrophic natural disasters, we delve even deeper into the ...

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 Flex Alexander is ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 ...

Irene may have bypassed New York City but, in Vermont, two months worth of rain fell in less than 24 hours. It's the worst disaster since epic flooding in 1927, as we hear from Matt Sutkoski, weather ...

The typhoon displaced more than 560,000 villagers in the Philippines, including nearly 450,000 who were evacuated to ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi’s trail of destruction in the Philippines has left the country in a state of national calamity. With nearly ...