Illegal high-rises on Gandhi Road loom over the fragile hills of Darjeeling in India, despite court orders to halt construction. Credit: Akash Pradhan On a rainy morning in August, 47-year-old Dawa ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar midday on Friday, killing at least two people in Bangkok and burying an unknown number when a high-rise building under construction ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events in the United States are becoming more frequent, more intense, and increasingly costly. From 1980 through 2024, the United ...

FEMA officials survey tree damage and assess the condition of the beaches and activity facilities in Guanica, Puerto Rico, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on Dec. 20, 2017. (Andrea Booher/FEMA) A ...

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday midday, with tremors felt across Thailand, killing at least three people in Bangkok and trapping dozens under a collapsed high-rise ...

At least 36 people have lost their lives in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest high-rise disasters in recent memory, after a massive fire tore through the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po on ...

One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, when a 40-line inscription carved into calcite detailed the abnormal ...

Amid A sharp rise in climate-driven disasters across country, Maharashtra has emerged as the largest recipient of ...