Natural Disasters

Many of us live in areas at risk, particularly along the coasts

It's beginning to look a lot like flash flood season everywhere we go! Catch up on the news and find out how to survive right here.

Hawaii isn't the only island where fissures open and swallow civilization. Read about a much more spectacular eruption in Iceland.

Here's your one-stop Kilauea BS detector

A new analysis found the flood protection benefits of coral reefs save the global economy $4 billion dollars a year. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Service is supposedly restored to most customers, but some say water is now unclean

Homes will be bought in areas where it does not make sense to build flood control structures

The eruption is the Central American nation’s deadliest since 1902

As storms become stronger, safety instructions for threats can be contradictory

If we can predict hurricanes, floods, and tornados to differing degrees of reliability, why don’t we know when the next big earthquake will come?

Building houses at the edge of the wilderness increases the danger of catastrophic blazes

The volcanic island chain was born when the Pacific tectonic plate drifted over a hotspot in Earth’s mantle.