In his new book, Jon Mooallem tells the story of the Great Alaska Earthquake and Genie Chance, the woman whose voice on the radio held everyone together.

The Himalayas, once celebrated as a sacred and resilient landscape, are now collapsing under the weight of reckless development, corporate exploitation, and political neglect. What we call “natural ...

Wildfire is a natural process that has existed for as long as vegetation has covered the Earth. Occasional fires in a forest are healthy. They clear out dead wood and leaf and branch litter, leaving ...

Past research has indicated that more traffic accidents and accident-related fatalities occur following human-made disasters such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, due to increased ...

Divers have found human remains in a long-abandoned flooded coal mine here, where a ceiling collapse killed 183 miners during ...

The impact of any disaster — perhaps except for an extinction-event asteroid — is shaped by human actions. Over the 20th century, the number of people killed by disasters fell steeply, from ...

One way to understand the stunned confusion of the left and the spirited regeneration of the right is through the analysis of the human response to disasters. Such an analysis, provided by Rebecca ...

Carbondale Crime Stoppers will host a free preparedness event, "Be Prepared, Don't Be Scared," on September 13, 2025, from 1 ...

Human activity is the main force behind climate change, and climate change will lead to more storms like Haiyan and Sandy.

Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf has said that natural disasters were beyond human control, and while the ...

If, in a few years, a tsunami cripples a nuclear reactor akin to the Fukushima disaster in Japan, human-like robots with super-human capabilities may be sent to the rescue. At least, that’s the ...