"We can nudge, not create." Skeptic sparks debate with conspiracy theory about natural disasters: 'Think about the physics required' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Natural disasters and severe weather cost the global economy $417 billion last year, including $154 billion for which insurers were on the hook, according to a new report.

As the outside of the disaster zone was becoming a digital barrage, the inside remained stubbornly analog. News was a game of Telephone, delivered on foot by someone who had heard from someone ...

Natural disasters—from tornadoes across the South and Midwest, to the fires in Los Angeles to Hurricane Helene’s devastation in North Carolina—have upended communities, with small businesses ...

Charting a safer, more resilient course means first acknowledging that there is no such thing as a “natural disaster.” The word “natural” implies these events are entirely out of our ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately. A rash of tornados pounded ...

T he number of people living in urban areas has tripled in the last 50 years, meaning when a major natural disaster such as an earthquake strikes a city, more lives are in danger. Meanwhile, the ...

Last year, RocketHomes compiled a list of the top 20 U.S. cities that are the least prone to natural disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, extreme winter storms and high ...

Ahead of the 20th anniversary, National Geographic's "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time" revisits the deadly catastrophe that struck New Orleans. It airs July 27.

Natural and climate disasters cost the United States more now than they did in the 80s and the early 2000s. I spoke with Forbes Tompkins, an expert scientist at Pew Charitable Trust, a data and ...

Opinion: Why there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster Opinion by Anita van Breda 6 minute read Published 6:36 PM EDT, Sun August 4, 2024 Link Copied! Follow: ...