Allegiant Air attempted to branch out into the hotel industry by building a Florida holiday resort. An airline paired with a ...

Vanuatu has been in a perpetual state of recovery. How many disasters can one nation take? The China-built presidential palace sits atop Vanuatu's capital Port Vila overlooking its bay. ( ...

Among other recent disasters, in 2018 a wildfire trapped residents in the seaside town of Mati, killing 104 people who were waiting for evacuation. Survivors accused authorities of failing to ...

Hundreds of thousands were displaced by climate disasters in 2024, according to the UN, underscoring the growing need for worldwide early warning systems to protect vulnerable communities ...

EM-DAT collates data on the occurrence and impacts of thousands of mass disasters worldwide and records both human and economic losses in a publicly available dataset. It relies on various sources ...

Natural disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and severe, with devastating consequences for both individuals and communities around the world. In the U.S., the National Centers for ...

It would shape attitudes early and make generational differences. A strong volunteering culture helps keep us safe. Without it, we risk becoming even more vulnerable to deadly natural disasters.

The blaze has been contained, with all evacuation orders lifted by Monday. When the triple disasters struck 14 years ago, scores of people were forced from their homes. The disaster-prone nation has ...

The windswept, rolling countryside of Minamisoma feels like the middle of nowhere, but it is actually at the heart of a critical strategy for Fukushima Prefecture. Inside a gleaming compound ...

People across Japan are remembering tens of thousands of lives lost 14 years ago. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan's eastern Pacific coast, triggering a nuclear ...

Here’s a closer look at some of the most infamous man-made disasters in history. Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989.