Tokyo may be a futuristic metropolis, but its roots run deep in the 17th century when the city was known as Edo—then one of the world’s largest urban centers that flourished with commerce, ...

While no single event since Katrina has exceeded 1,800 deaths, heat waves now routinely rank as the deadliest type of weather ...

Several weather disasters in US history have killed over 1,000 people. The largest was precisely 125 years ago, when a ...

Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst simultaneous flood and landslide disasters in many decades, with nearly two million ...

At a time when Sri Lanka and a few countries in Southeast Asia are struggling to recover from a post-cyclonic devastation it ...

A sudden climate jolt disrupted harvests and trade, setting in motion the grain routes that helped carry plague into Europe.

On Dec. 6, 1907, in West Virginia’s Marion County, an explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in ...

Shawn Rodgers' fundraiser totals nearly $13,000. He said that doesn't scratch the surface for the need a month after the ...

Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

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