FIERCE weather has battered several areas across the holiday island of Cyprus, with dams overflowing and landslides triggered ...

What is a megaquake? Japan issues first official warning for disaster that could kills tens of thousands - Japanese ...

Japanese authorities say a megaquake could cause a devastating tsunami to strike eastern coastal areas of Japan ...

In the short span of two or three days, Cyclone Ditwah, has caused a disaster of unprecedented proportions in our midst.

What warmer oceans do change, however, is the amount of energy available to any storm that does manage to form. When the ...

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

Tornadoes, extreme floods and even a hurricane have disrupted Tennessee schools in recent years. Here's a closer look at the ...

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.

Shrinking federal disaster support is prompting philanthropies to recalibrate how they plan and fund local relief, recovery, ...

A TORRENT of filthy brown water roars through Rhodes’ postcard-pretty alleys as Storm Byron keeps hammering the Greek island. Shocking clips show narrow lanes transformed into violent rivers as ...