One year ago, on Jan. 22, a historic rainstorm hit the San Diego region, bringing 2.73 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, making it the highest level of precipitation since 1850.

Source: Photo by Elaine Miller-Karas (2025) Used with permission. Disasters have plagued communities worldwide. The widespread destruction from the recent Southern California wildfires has been ...

State and federal governments jointly declared a natural disaster after days of extreme weather wrought havoc on the Hunter region and plunged hundreds of thousands of homes into days of darkness.

I think this will be a huge help to a lot of high-income earners,' one tax expert says A longtime effort to make tax breaks more generous for victims of natural disasters is finally coming to ...

Despite the finger-pointing about who is to blame for the spread of the Los Angeles fires, Jeff Goodell believes there’s no level of preparation that could have fundamentally changed the ...

Criswell, the outgoing FEMA administrator, sits for an exit interview with ABC. Whether it is a hurricane, major tornado, wildfire or anything in between, disasters "don't discriminate" in where ...

The recent wave of storms and heavy rainfall pounding the New South Wales Mid North Coast has been declared a natural disaster, with the state government activating its Disaster Recovery Funding ...

Earlier, the state and federal governments to declared a natural disaster in three northern areas amid the severe storms. Wind gusts of up to 100km/h throughout the week left more than 100,000 ...

Thousands of households will endure a fourth night without power and communities are on the brink of isolation as a week of wild weather is declared a natural disaster.

Speaking to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, a scientific director at the Russian Academy of Sciences, deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological ...

emphasising its role in exacerbating disasters and their consequences. UNDRR's report. The devastating flood in Wayanad was also among 219 significant weather events and was selected based on criteria ...