At least 91 students remain trapped in concrete rubble almost two days after an Islamic school building collapsed on them, ...

An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 collapsed walls of houses and buildings late Tuesday in a central Philippine province ...

A teenager was killed and dozens of children were left trapped under the rubble after a school collapsed in Indonesia on Tuesday.

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia ...

A concrete safety bed put in for emergencies did its job Wednesday night at Virginia's Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport, stopping a passenger jet that skidded off the runway in heavy rain.

Another Texas agency has fumbled the private information of tens of thousands of residents — including the victims of floods and other natural disasters. The Texas General Land Office exposed the ...

September is National Preparedness Month, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for emergencies. The American College of Healthcare Executives advises healthcare executives ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

FEMA is assessing public property damage from historic floods in Wisconsin, a step toward unlocking disaster aid. Gov. Tony Evers estimates $43 million in public damage; at least $33 million in ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster ...