Natural disasters have been shaping the path of human history for thousands of years. They leave behind stories of destruction, fatalities, and eventually, survival. They also leave behind stories of ...

Arrows show the approximate locations where the TWA and United planes crashed into the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The ...

History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function by Susan L. Cutter, The Conversation edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by ...

As we near the peak of hurricane season, it was 125 years ago that Texas’s history was altered forever due to a massive, ...

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 ...

It marked the beginning of the worst natural disaster to hit the Lehigh Valley. George Kreitz still lives in the home on ...

Curators and conservators are finding innovative solutions to protect our history from disaster. Will some be destroyed ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated ...

FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

The tragedy happened Sunday in the village of Tarasin in Central Darfur’s Marrah Mountains after days of heavy rainfall in ...