The idea that a weather event from nearly 150 years ago could still threaten our lives today is ...

In 1995, a train caused the deadliest elevator disaster in history—and no one was at the controls.

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

The climatic phenomenon is expected to return this year, but a lot has changed since what might have been the worst environmental disaster in human history.

Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, leaving a mark on history that still weighs heavy on New Orleans and surrounding communities. On August 29, 2005, the Category 5 ...

A few days before a massive winter storm dumped snow and ice on a large swath of the country, disrupted travel and killed more than 30 people, a Florida congressman warned that the Federal Emergency ...

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The people of Pompeii were quite unprepared for the eruption of Vesuvius - getting on with their busy lives, in total ignorance of what was to come. The signs of impending disaster, though, were there ...