Notably, 2025 was the first year in over a decade when the U.S. was not impacted by a major hurricane. Still, largely due to ...

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 ...

The United States experienced its third-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record in 2025, ...

Opposition MPs accuse officials of trying to bury a report that blames a known design flaw for the nation’s deadliest crash.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — 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 rebuilding in ...

A new analysis of search data found that survivors turned to the Internet for information immediately following several of the world’s worst disasters in the past six years. According to Ryan Falor, ...

The figures are in. These are the worst weather disasters of last year, ranked by dollar amount. Douglas A. McIntyre, ...

The Deepwater Horizon spill remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. More than 15 years later, ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...