Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just ...

In today’s video, we rank the 10 States with the Most Extreme Weather — the places where the climate isn’t just unpredictable ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

Natural disasters, from sweeping hurricanes to destructive floods, are painfully preserved into the memory of people in the United States. While statistics help showing the amount of damage they ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Floods that damaged hydropower dams in Nepal and destroyed the main bridge connecting the country to China show the vulnerability of infrastructure and need for smart ...

A string of recent natural disasters has increased awareness of the dangers, yet nearly one-third of Americans haven’t taken financial steps to prepare for a natural disaster, and less than one-third ...

Heatwaves ranked even lower on the list of scariest disasters, a distant seventh place with just 6% of the vote. An interesting tally given that heatwaves are by far the deadliest natural disaster in ...

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday described the ongoing extreme weather crisis as the worst natural disaster the ...

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2025 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO ...