Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union’s Chornobyl nuclear plant ...

Environmental disasters generally fall into two categories: natural and manmade. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 destroyed flora and fauna across hundreds of square miles and partially ...

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 ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

When the February 2023 train derailment in the small village of East Palestine, Ohio became one of the state’s biggest disasters, it quickly became about health hazards, lawsuits, blame and media ...

More than 110 million people were affected by 358 reported disasters in 2025, according to the annual report by the Emergency ...