Catastrophic wildfire disasters have surged globally with 43 per cent of the world's worst fires striking in just the past ...

October 3, 2025 - Nearly half of the world’s worst wildfire disasters have occurred in just the past decade, new research from UC Merced’s Fire Resilience Center shows.

The world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami, caused a chain ...

The Spanish government on Tuesday described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country's worst environmental disasters in years, as it approved relief measures for affected areas.

BANGKOK (AP) — A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world's neediest people are suffering from serious food ...

The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors. One of ...

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid ...

Nature's immense and overwhelming beauty is balanced only by its immense and overwhelming destruction, and the numerous ...

Britain's surrender of Singapore has long been viewed as a "humiliation". Now, a series of exhibits and tours are revealing ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world’s neediest people are suffering from serious food ...