A massive earthquake off the Pacific Northwest coast is not a distant abstraction but a well-defined geological threat. Along ...

Nature has a remarkable way of sending quiet warnings long before a disaster unfolds. Subtle shifts in the sky, sudden changes in animal behavior, unusual sounds, or even a strange stillness in the ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

In the event of a disaster, a mobile phone may be the first to alert someone. With Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs), customers of telecommunications companies including Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T ...

A string of recent natural disasters has increased awareness of the dangers, yet nearly one-third of Americans haven’t taken financial steps to prepare for a natural disaster, and less than one-third ...

More than 105,000 borrowers in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra provinces have been impacted by severe flooding, much of ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just ...