Natural Disasters
Keeping you updated on the latest news about hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and more.
Hospitals in the South are already stretched with coronavirus patients. The powerful storm could make things worse.
The eruption near Reykjavik followed months of earthquakes, and led to beautiful orange and red skies.
Winter Storm Uri has devastated Texas and parts of the southern US. Follow the latest news.
Losing power in Texas — and losing faith in the state’s reverence for rugged individualism.
Wholesale power plans left Texans on the hook for thousands of dollars after prices spiked.
An Austin organizer explains how the Texas freeze left her already vulnerable community in crisis.
Millions of Texans are under “boil water” orders after a winter storm.
Here’s what the federal government is doing to help Texas.
Historic snowfall brought Madrid to a standstill.
It’s time for the world to get more ambitious with its emissions targets.
Help is available, but it’s not getting to those who need it most.
The earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday.
The storm is expected to hit the central Vietnamese coast, which has seen record flooding, this week.
As California battles historic wildfires, Gov. Gavin Newsom is fighting for federal aid.
The storm’s winds tore off roofs and toppled trees — and one Confederate monument.
A year after the Camp Fire nearly leveled Paradise, California, the money is drying up and a lawsuit rages. Can recovery efforts ever return a community to its old self?
The 2018 hurricane season is now at its peak, and one storm in particular is raising concern: Hurricane Florence.
The ingredients that fueled the deadly wildfire were brewing for years. Residents only had minutes to flee.
Thousands who lost their homes to the Camp Fire must contend with one of the tightest housing markets in the country.
Under a normal president, this wouldn’t be a big deal. Under Trump, things are different.
The president continues to insist there’s “no way” Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people last year.
It starts to build up before the hurricane makes landfall.
Thousands of Americans are still without power in part because of the botched hurricane recovery.
We fuel them. We build next to them. We ignite them.
“We can’t do this whole thing by ourselves.”
Dangerous storm surge, high winds, and rain are predicted for today and tomorrow.
Here’s what the science can tell us.
Hurricane Matthew is poised to hit Florida and officials are being blunt: “This storm will kill you.”
No injuries have been reported after the Sakurajima volcano exploded.
I don’t ask: Do I want to be a mother? I ask: Can I really bring a kid into a world careening toward crisis?
The disaster was as much human-caused as natural.
— and 9 more things to know to start the day.
My whole town was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As my family and I tried to rebuild, we saw the best humanity had to offer — and the worst.
In a word: ugly.
Researchers have studied the hurricane’s lasting impact.
When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was communications director for Gov. Blanco. I found out firsthand what happens when government is caught unprepared for a crisis.
Japan’s dilemma: Bringing back nuclear is hard. Staying off nuclear might be even harder.
On average, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake has occurred every 500 years. But averages can be deceiving.