Environmental disasters generally fall into two categories: natural and manmade. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 ...

Climate disasters that kill large numbers of people have never been short, single events. They are almost always ...

The death toll in Spain’s deadliest rail disaster in over a decade rose to 41 Tuesday, as the country began three days of national mourning for the victims of the high-speed collision. The crash took ...

Every century has a few events so destructive that they leave people standing directly in the path of whatever the earth or sea delivers. Some made it out. Many didn’t. From cyclones to floods and ...

India–Pakistan monsoon floods killed over 1,860 people, ranking deadliest climate disaster of 2025. Global climate disasters caused over $120bn losses, driven by floods, heatwaves and wildfires. Asia ...