Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound ...

The 1927 flood remains Vermont's most devastating natural disaster in state history. When the water finally receded, dozens ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

America has faced devastating tornadoes throughout its history. The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 remains the deadliest. Many of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby ...

NEW ORLEANS — In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest and most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history. Forming over the Bahamas as a tropical depression on August 23, ...

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Despite gale force winds and over a foot of water flooding the streets, the businessmen of Galveston, Texas, gathered for a lively bite at Ritter's Saloon and Cafe ...

A devastating landslide wiped out a village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing at least 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a ...