The economic cost of natural and man-made disasters jumped threefold to $218 billion in 2010 from $68 billion the previous year, with earthquakes the main cause of death and destruction, insurer Swiss ...

Extreme weather in the United States brings with it a high price tag, according to a new federal report. In the last three decades, 99 weather disasters have caused a billion or more dollars in damage ...

It's long been clear that BP sought to low-ball estimates of the Macondo oil spill during the 2010 disaster and since then. But recently disclosed company correspondence shows that BP officials knew ...

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After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

It's not tornadoes or fires. Earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. In the United States, flooding is the most frequent and costly natural disaster. Just one inch of water can cause $25,000 in damage to a ...

Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau. By Aidan Gardiner An estimated 2.5 million people were forced from their homes ...

Stacker used data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to break down the costliest October weather disasters since 1980. On Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall on ...