Argentina will begin a trial this week into the medical team of late soccer icon Diego Maradona over homicide by negligence, ...

Disaster movies depict large-scale destruction, either natural or otherwise. Lately, filmmakers have mainly resorted to alien invasion stories, zombie attacks, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, or space ...

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the southern Serbian town of Nis on Saturday (March 1) to commemorate the victims of a railway station disaster and to participate in a series of student-led ...

Animals' unique abilities to predict natural disasters have amazed scientists for centuries. Dogs, elephants, fish, toads, cats, birds, cows, and snakes show unusual behaviors before earthquakes ...

After disasters, people with disabilities are more likely to be displaced, more likely to never return home and more likely to receive scam offers, Census Bureau data shows. As Reda Rountree and ...

It is disheartening to see the same publications that have previously reported on the perils of overtourism now behaving like golden retrievers chasing a tennis ball, sprinting after the hype with ...

After a series of high-profile disasters, some social media users suggested that air travel accidents were becoming more frequent. Videos of hair-raising near misses began to trend online and the ...

"Couple this with the Cheshire East Council plan for 1500 new homes on the other side of the A34 and it signals disaster for residents and infrastructure in the decades ahead.” Jones Homes ...

The crash of a Delta Air Lines plane in Toronto is the fourth major aviation disaster in North America in the last month. Here's a look at each of the crashes. Passenger plane flips during landing ...

Johnson County officials on Tuesday declared a state of disaster after the discovery of “forever chemicals” in agricultural land, which they say was a result of contaminated biosolids being ...

Zoe Roth, better known to the internet as Disaster Girl, became a meme sensation after a 2005 photo of her smirking in front of a burning house went viral. The image, captured by her father during a ...

Prone to major earthquakes that trigger fires and tsunamis, Japan has become a world leader in building disaster-resilient communities. Three experts in public policy and urban development told ...