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Torrential rains are not the only thing Hurricane Florence will bring once it hits landfall. The massive storm is expected to dump record amounts of rain in the southeastern United States — rain that could overflow toxic...

Hurricane Florence is on a collision course with the southeastern United States. The immense and powerful storm will create high winds and surges along coastal towns and cities, but scientists are more concerned about how...

Ellicott City, Maryland was devastated in 2016 by a flash flood — the type of event that many people said happens only once in a lifetime. But now, disastrous flooding is happening again. More than 300 residents have been...

Last August, Hurricane Harvey set records as the costliest hurricane in history and the wettest tropical cyclone ever in the U.S. The storm displaced more than 30,000 people, many of whom are still struggling to recover in...

NASA has released more than 65,000 high-resolution aerial images of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, which document the full extent of the ecological damage caused by the deadly hurricane in 2017...

Between 2011 and 2017, California suffered through one of the worst droughts in its history. After the drought broke last year in what would be California's wettest winter in a century, extreme flooding caused severe damage...

Do we need a category six in defining storms? Some climate scientists think so, as tropical cyclones increase in duration, intensity, and strength, The Guardian reported...

Millions of meals never made their way to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, according to Reuters. United States Democratic lawmakers recently said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded a contract of almost...

Mount Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines, sent lava billowing down its slopes on Tuesday and prompted an evacuation of more than 21,000 locals who live in threatened areas...

Scientists at the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis may have learned why earthquakes often occur in places they aren't usually expected...

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Recent natural disasters such as hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico have laid bare the need for more resilient buildings. Fortunately, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have developed...

For the past several days, 15 ferocious wildfires have been burning across at least 119,032 acres throughout Northern California. The inferno has claimed the lives of at least 10 people, a number that is expected to grow,...

After Hurricane Maria — a category 4 storm — knocked out power for Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million citizens, the FEMA website became a major lifeline for Americans to stay informed of recovery efforts. However just yesterday...

In the midst of one of the most active hurricane seasons in modern United States history, New Orleans braces for impact as Tropical Storm Nate barrels through Central America en route to the American Gulf Coast...