As South Africa reflects on its mining practices through the lens of these tragedies, the need for urgent reform has never been more critical. Addressing systemic flaws and ensuring rigorous ...

Source: Photo by Elaine Miller-Karas (2025) Used with permission. Disasters have plagued communities worldwide. The widespread destruction from the recent Southern California wildfires has been ...

Jeff Goodell believes there’s no level of preparation that could have fundamentally changed the trajectory of this massive disaster, which was propelled by urban planning decisions made decades ...

Criswell, the outgoing FEMA administrator, sits for an exit interview with ABC. Whether it is a hurricane, major tornado, wildfire or anything in between, disasters "don't discriminate" in where ...

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deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." Cleaning up the damage from the spill in Crimea's Kerch Strait could cost Russia $14 billion ...

The report issued by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with Climate Central, has also shed light on the significant influence of climate change on global ...

If accurate, this would exceed the inflation-adjusted $201.3 billion cost of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. In 2024 alone, there were 27 weather and climate ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mario Mendoza poses for a portrait as he takes a break while working on repairing a mobile home in Belle ...

There’s a truism in municipal debt: Bonds rarely move on natural disasters. That long-tested concept had held up until fires destroyed thousands of properties in Los Angeles last week.

President Joe Biden, announced the approval of a major disaster declaration and ordered federal assistance to bolster response efforts. The Department of Medical Examiner announced it had received ...