There's no controlling Mother Nature, and her wrath can, at times, be staggering. Last year, natural disasters—from droughts ...

Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for ...

Few scientists have spoken as bluntly about humanity’s future as physicist Stephen Hawking. One of his most striking warnings concerned the long-term fate of Earth itself. Stephen Hawking was known ...

The Trump administration decided this year to stop updating a federal database that tracked the cost of extreme weather, compiling an annual list of hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters that ...

Google has integrated its Gemini AI into the Earth app. Because of this integration, the app can now predict natural disasters and who will be affected by them the most. Google has announced a big ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters. Experts from the global Earth ...

A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...

Disasters are big business. Decades ago, meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started tracking the number of natural disasters in the US – the ones that incurred at ...

A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption in prehistoric Japan. The results paint a more complex picture ...