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

The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a ...

In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people ...

A large volcanic eruption or cluster of eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered severe climate anomalies that drove harvest ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

What warmer oceans do change, however, is the amount of energy available to any storm that does manage to form. When the ocean is warmer, cyclones have more fuel and evaporation increases, loading the ...

Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides ...