Natural Disasters

Many asteroids are related, but their family trees can be hard to trace

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is raising concerns about possible tsunami impacts, although risk appears to be waning

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

A new study finds that one quarter of heat waves between 2000 and 2023 would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming—and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers

Hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin is historically at its peak on September 10—but not this year

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and lives—as giant “gullies” expand into cities across Africa

Two decades after Katrina, we revisit the storm and discuss the evolution of hurricane preparedness since then.

Scientists and engineers have been implementing steps to better protect New Orleans, but recent government actions are undermining the work, raising alarm

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous new meteor shower?

China is having a fast-rising chikungunya outbreak in a place that has never had one before.

Meltwater from a glacial lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate change destabilizes ice and glacial lakes fill with more meltwater