Natural disasters were abundant in 2024. Landslides, floods, storms, and wildfires were among the worst in history, taking ...

Hurricane Helene, which struck the US, Cuba and Mexico in September, caused at least $55bn in losses as well as 232 ...

Picture: Jose Jordan / AFP Mother Nature was not kind to Planet Earth this year ... Yet none of these make our list of the top six worst natural disasters, which has been drawn objectively ...

Scientists and emergency managers are trying to learn from disasters past. The amount of damage caused by billion-dollar disasters reached an unprecedented amount in 2024, and the total cost of ...

Kenya was barely out of a once-in-a-generation drought when the worst floods in decades delivered back-to-back disasters for the ... basin - usually one of Earth's wettest places.

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history.

The unidentified dead were heaped into trucks and dumped into the freshly dug earth, resting forever in ... taking precedence over Islam. When natural gas was discovered in 1971, the Acehnese ...

People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history’s worst natural disasters ...

It is one of several mass graves in Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s northernmost province, which was one of the areas worst hit by ... destroyed by the disaster have been reconstructed.

It is one of several mass graves in Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's northernmost province, which was one of the areas worst hit by ... destroyed by the disaster have been reconstructed.