Natural Disasters

The Nepal disaster appears to be a “cascading event,” where one hazard seems to have triggered another, experts say

The disaster has claimed hundreds of lives, and at least 1,400 people are missing

A massive flood potentially caused by a chunk of ice breaking off from a glacier has swept away bridges, schools, and other buildings and killed at least 160 people

A wildfire outside Reno began on August 22 and has already burned more than 15,000 acres of land

The area of Europe affected by wildfires is due to triple, a new study finds

The same people affected by extreme weather are also likely to worry that they will face a future disaster, according to a new poll

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This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months

Betelgeuse, the sky’s most famous red supergiant, is well studied but poorly understood

This seismic event is of a similar magnitude to the pair of earthquakes that hit Venezuela in June

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th-century wars, and the continent’s wildfires are now big enough and hot enough and last long enough to reach them