A lawyer has argued in a London Court that global mining giant BHP should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental ...

It has been 70 years since the fatal 1955 Hunter Valley flood that killed 14 people ... $600 million in present-day terms. The natural disaster was a major driver in the formation of the NSW ...

Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of Britain after a cargo ship smashed into an oil tanker transporting jet fuel for the US military. The crash ignited a huge ...

These types of disasters are only set to become more frequent and intense as climate change drives warmer and drier conditions. According to NASA, parts of the western U.S., Mexico, Brazil ...

Big Oil faces mounting lawsuits as extreme weather worsens, with California leading efforts to make fossil fuel giants pay billions of dollars for the climate damage they have long denied. Across ...

I wanted to learn how to prepare for disaster. It turned out I needed skills, yes — but the first thing was learning how to breathe. Credit...Illustration by Tim McDonagh Supported by By J ...

Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across ...

If sweeping tariffs on our literally most treasured trading partners are such a good idea — and they are not; they are a demonstrably terrible idea — then why announce them and then ...

Along with our inability to control the weather, this country has had to deal with some terrible natural disasters that have killed thousands, if not tens of thousands, and cost the country billions.

The concept of the “best” disaster movie is a complicated one. Of all movie genres, it’s arguably the one to which our conventional ideas of what makes a film “good” or “bad” are ...