Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

Monika Graff / Getty Images Dr. Latoya Storr was an emergency medicine physician for a hospital in Grand Bahama when Hurricane Dorian ripped across the island in 2019. The hospital flooded four feet ...

Photo courtesy of Dubai Eye On November 27 at 9.17 pm I received this SMS message in Sinhala. “Special announcement. Due to ...

At the start of September, torrential rain in the Mediterranean led to severe flooding, infrastructure damage and deaths in multiple countries. As climate change expedites more extreme weather events ...

David Silver thinks games are the key to creativity. After competing in national Scrabble competitions as a kid, he went on to study at Cambridge and co-found a video game company. Later, after ...

Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate talks next month, it’s worth recalling a sobering line ...

Mother Nature certainly has been coming in for a heaping share of damnation in recent months. As if the pandemic wasn’t enough, there were the wildfires in California and the deep freeze in Texas.

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods that inspired ancient myths, nature has always had the power to rewrite ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.