Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly threats are actually caused by human error ...

NEW DELHI— On August 11, 1997, the quiet valleys of Chirgaon in Himachal Pradesh turned into a nightmare as a cloudburst triggered massive floods and landslides, killing over 200 people. The tragedy ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods that inspired ancient myths, nature has always had the power to rewrite ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a virtual public workshop focused on the needs of children and youth in disasters. The aims of this workshop are to explore ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar led to a skyscraper collapse in Bangkok this spring, search and rescue teams—human, canine, and machine—struggled with dangerous debris, thick dust, and ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...

Cyclone Ditwah caused extensive flooding across several protected areas in Sri Lanka in late November and early December, resulting in mass deaths of deer and other wildlife that perished largely ...