Natural disasters

In the wake of deadly disasters, communities across the United States have banded together to search for lost photographs stuck in rivers and trees, or buried in the rubble. Grassroots projects to reunite people with their photos have sprung up in Asheville, North Carolina, after Hurricane Helene, and Altadena, California, following the Los Angeles wildfires. The found images show everything...

About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Management Agency climate disaster financial help since 2011.

The U.S. Agency for International Development was created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy.

Less than a year since it launched, Extreme Weather Survivors keeps gaining new members as the U.S. faces more frequent disasters. The network provides support for survivors, but it also delivers unified support for climate action. National climate reporter Chase Cain introduces us to a couple who lost their home in the Eaton Fire.

During natural disasters like wildfires and floods, scammers often emerge to prey on victims.

The 7.1 magnitude quake struck parts of western China and Nepal on Tuesday morning.

People across Southeast Asia commemorated the lives of those lost two decades ago in the massive Indian Ocean tsunami that killed close to 230,000.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, is an agency created to respond to disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know.

There are an estimated one to two megaquakes a year across the globe, which have the power to completely destroy communities near their epicenter. Here’s what you need to know.

The head of the Homeland Security Department says the agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is prepared as it goes into what is expected to be an intense hurricane and wildfire season.

More than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive following a landslide May 24, according to the Papua New Guinea government.

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670. Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll is based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than...