All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

Natural disasters are usually remembered for the destruction they leave behind. But some disasters ...

People living in regions with lower scores on the Human Development Index face a substantially higher risk from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve spent most of my life terrified of climate change and the apocalyptic future it seems destined to create. I was 2 years old ...

Human traffickers will capitalize on the vulnerability of disaster events to exploit victims. In disasters, traffickers see opportunity. Natural and man-made disasters wreak havoc on economic, ...

LONDON, KENTUCKY - MAY 17: Tony McFall looks over the debris from the home of his father and step-mother, who lost their lives during the tornado in the neighborhood of Sunshine Hills on May 17, 2025, ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

The 2025 Los Angeles fires exposed the escalating threat of urban fires and their potential to trigger major human disasters. This Comment outlines key policy strategies to strengthen fire resilience ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide. Today ...

Natural disasters consist of various catastrophic events, including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. These events can cause extensive damage, loss of life and have long-term impacts on ...

The explosion of a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 40 years ago in April 1986 was one of the biggest human-made ...