Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

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

The humanitarian needs and natural disasters in Africa have increased considerably in recent years, and such a trend is unlikely to change in the near future. While many factors drive the growing ...

Severe storms and towering tornadoes killed at least 28 people across the Midwest and South from May 17 to May 18. The last tornadoes to cause these types of mass casualties were in 2021, killing 93 ...