Natural disasters vary widely across the United States depending on geography and climate. Some regions regularly experience hurricanes or wildfires, ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...

From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Over the past five years, the U.S. has experienced an ...

Students affected by the 2023 Hawaiʻi wildfires are still struggling with lingering trauma, mental health experts say. Two years after wildfires that devastated Lāhainā, a small town on Maui'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 ...

From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

Researchers are working on an artificial intelligence model that can recognize landslides. University of Cambridge scientists in the U.K. hope that this AI model will find landslides after extreme ...