Natural disasters have become some of the most expensive shocks to the U.S. economy, reshaping entire regions in a matter of ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just ...

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 ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Weather disasters in the first half of this year have cost the United States $93 billion in damage, according to a report released Tuesday by a German multinational insurance company. The analysis by ...

Natural disasters, from sweeping hurricanes to destructive floods, are painfully preserved into the memory of people in the United States. While statistics help showing the amount of damage they ...

Natural disasters can lead to anxiety, depression and PTSD, experts say. Central Texas is continuing to recover from devastating rains and "catastrophic" flooding that damaged homes and businesses and ...

BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) - Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct economic losses of 54.11 billion yuan ($7.55 billion) and affected more than 23 million people, an ...

HONG KONG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Emergency Management said on Thursday that natural disasters in the first three quarters of 2025 affected crops with an area of 530,000 hectares and ...

Google has integrated its Gemini AI into the Earth app. Because of this integration, the app can now predict natural disasters and who will be affected by them the most. Google has announced a big ...

The disaster has displaced over 61,000 families, who are currently seeking refuge in emergency shelters. In total, more than 1.5 million people across all 25 districts of the country have been ...