Hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves and disease outbreaks are all a preview of our hotter future. Dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions would help.

Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed.

The pandemic is widening social and economic divisions that also make the virus deadlier, a self-reinforcing cycle that experts warn could have consequences for years to come.

The feelings of fear and uncertainty are all too familiar to African Americans and other people of color.

Major fires, many of them linked to lax safety standards, have plagued South Korea for decades. The latest, on Wednesday, killed 38.

Struggling to keep up with a string of natural disasters, FEMA was not prepared to respond to the crisis that unfolded after Hurricane Maria and was slow to recover, according to the report.