Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday described the ongoing extreme weather crisis as the worst natural disaster the ...

In today’s video, we rank the 10 States with the Most Extreme Weather — the places where the climate isn’t just unpredictable, it’s downright hostile. From hurricane-prone coastal states to frozen ...

In the past year, we've seen the worst monsoon weather in decades and temperatures rise to truly alarming levels. Volcanoes ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

BANGKOK – A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world's neediest people are suffering from serious food shortages, ...

Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...

Hurricane Katrina—which made landfall in Louisiana in August 2005—is among the worst natural disasters to ever hit the United States, devastating communities across the Gulf Coast and forcing more ...

The losses and damage are the worst since the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami that killed around 31,000 people and left more ...

Heatwaves ranked even lower on the list of scariest disasters, a distant seventh place with just 6% of the vote. An ...

World leaders with the Group of 20 rich and developing nations will meet this weekend in Johannesburg for the bloc’s first ...