The pictures are horrific and terrifying. Entire neighborhoods wiped out like a war zone. Over 12,000 buildings destroyed. Hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate. Nearly 40,000 acres burned. And it ...

After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to ...

The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters—including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, and extreme temperatures—poses significant challenges for all stakeholders in ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

When a landslide barreled into her California neighborhood last year, Sallie Reeves’s home almost split in two. A year later, she is living alone with her two dogs in the former garage. Electricity ...

When disaster strikes, whether a fire, hurricane or flood, the immediate focus is on community safety. But in the aftermath, a second, quieter crisis begins: the fight for small business survival. For ...

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill by unanimous consent that would provide tax-filing relief for taxpayers in states that have issued state-level disaster declarations after unanimous passage earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced by U.S. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) and Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) would require provide up to a year of ...

Being displaced after a natural disaster can cause kids to feel cut off from their social supports, routines, and sense of security. Enduring a natural disaster can make children feel depressed and ...

People recovering from opioid addiction risk relapse when they can't get their medications after natural disasters. A group ...

Three hours before dawn on February 6, 2023, a 29-year-old pastrymaker named Nuri Imren woke to the sound of his sister screaming. His family’s high-rise apartment in the Turkish city of Antakya was ...