Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

The city of Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois are appealing President Donald Trump’s denial last week of a disaster declaration that would have unlocked federal financial assistance for ...

At its seventy-first session, the General Assembly, under the item entitled “Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-eighth session”, decided to include in the provisional ...

Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent. She is based in Washington, D.C., and reports for all shows and platforms. The move, known as Immediate Needs Funding, is ...

You’d think one would be enough in a small state. But the curse of Rhode Island’s crumbling infrastructure strikes again. A few days ago, falling debris from a Cranston highway overpass shut down ...

Oklahoma may be known for its tornadoes — like the one that damaged homes around Enid on Thursday night — but Texas has recorded more total natural disasters over the past two decades. In the span of ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

American aviators went into battle with a weapon they trusted but it repeatedly failed them. This video exposes the critical flaws of the Mark 13 torpedo and how it doomed early missions. Discover how ...

The Navy destroyers enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports carry weapons fielded after an American warship was attacked and nearly sunk more than 25 years ago. By Nicholas Kulish John Ismay and ...

Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns ...

History is full of moments where catastrophe almost consumed everything '€” and humanity barely escaped. Join us as we count down the most terrifying disasters and close calls that, despite their ...