A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami flooding San Francisco's Embarcadero. But the main sensors ...

Many of the victims drowned, the authorities said. Hundreds of thousands of people had evacuated before Typhoon Kalmaegi hit ...

The death toll from the most recent floods and landslides rose to 37 on Monday, with five people missing and 78 injured, officials said.

A recently completed, multimillion-dollar effort to install new weather stations in central and western North Dakota should ...

Hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered core ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.

I've been asked questions along this theme multiple times, from my friends and family in the United States to colleagues who work around the globe: How, amid Japan's worst natural disaster in 100 ...

Dams are important. In California, they generate 15% of our energy. They also provide storage for much of our drinking and ...

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency issued an emergency alert at the time of the quake, predicting strong shaking in the ...

A villager on the country’s northeastern coast repurposed rubble from the 2011 natural disaster to create Shiome, a community ...

Japan's government has provided a water level observation buoy to Taiwan. The device will be used at a barrier lake that overflowed last month in a typhoon, causing deadly floods. The disaster ...