In today’s video, we rank the 10 States with the Most Extreme Weather — the places where the climate isn’t just unpredictable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michigan is often overlooked as one of the safest places from natural disasters, but it deserves a closer look. Nestled in the Midwest, this state is largely shielded from the hurricanes that can ...

Heatwaves ranked even lower on the list of scariest disasters, a distant seventh place with just 6% of the vote. An interesting tally given that heatwaves are by far the deadliest natural disaster in ...

Study examined substance abuse rates before and after Hurricane Katrina. — -- The dangers of hurricanes, earthquakes and floods can seem clear, with high winds, rising waters or powerful tectonic ...