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Convoy of Hope, which has now responded to more than 800 emergencies globally, had responded to fewer than 100 disasters when ...
Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly ...
With intense, destructive fires often in the news, it can seem like more land is burning. And in parts of the world, ...
In Louisiana, heat and hurricanes can feel like a generational curse. After two decades, an editor who grew up in the state ...
Climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug ...
Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...
The Supreme Court described the result as "unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka," citing the ...
Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest natural disasters in US history, made its landfall on August 29, 2005. More than 1,800 people lost their lives, while over a million others were displaced from ...
Walmart officially opened its security and disaster operations center, where meteorologists and other staff track potentially hazardous conditions across the U.S. and around the world, on Thursday.
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that people forced to leave their homes because of a natural disaster experienced higher levels of depression or anxiety, with symptoms ...
Historically speaking, the last week of August has been a tough one for Charleston, at least so far as natural disasters go.
Kentucky Emergency Management Director Eric Gibson provided lawmakers with a sobering snapshot of the increasing number of ...