On Memorial Day of 1889, western Pennsylvania was caught by a massive storm, unprecedented in the state's history. Heavy ...

The storms, declared a natural disaster in the most severely affected areas, came as a cyclone brewing off West Australia’s ...

Firefighters are battling the fast-moving, destructive Palisades fire. Here are details on evacuations, road closures, ...

More than 38,000 acres have been burned in fires across Los Angeles and Ventura County, as of Monday, Jan. 13 around 1:13 p.m. According to Cal Fire, At least 25 people have been found dead, including ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...

A dam for a dam will make the entire Himalayan riparian/climatic systems run dry and turn it into a disaster-scape for its communities. Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the ...

Gwen Van Dam, a veteran character actress of seven decades whose 140 credits spanned television, film and the Los Angeles stage, died Dec. 19 at her home in West LA. She was 96. Per previous ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Van Dam, who compiled about 140 acting credits on IMDb, died Dec. 19 at her home in West Los Angeles after a recurrence of cancer, her son, Dirk Smillie, told The ...

“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he declared on social media last week. But by many traditional metrics, the America that Mr. Trump will inherit from President ...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the disaster, reporter Selina Ross has gone back through the ABC archives to that night, and its aftermath. Dream doubles return over as Special Ks call it quits 10 ...

Days after Beijing cleared the construction of the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in lower riparian states India and Bangladesh, ...

On completion, the 60,000 MW project will have the capacity to produce three times the amount of electricity as the world’s largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze in central China.