Just because there aren't any hurricanes in the forecast during your Caribbean vacation doesn't mean you're in the clear. Be ...

Tropical Storm Jerry is bringing heavy rain and winds to the northern Lesser Antilles, while Subtropical Storm Karen has formed in the North Atlantic.

As islands brace for this year's big storms, many homes don't have household insurance.

Manuel Otero, the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), emphasized the ...

A new nationwide survey highlights America's deepest weather fears, and the results show striking gaps between the threats people worry about and how prepared they actually feel to face them. The poll ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

Study examined substance abuse rates before and after Hurricane Katrina. — -- The dangers of hurricanes, earthquakes and floods can seem clear, with high winds, rising waters or powerful tectonic ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

More than 2,000 terrestrial vertebrate species face a high risk of extinction from natural hazards, including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, according to a first-of-its-kind ...

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 ...

That’s a big consideration when thinking about the best place to live. By Vince Dixon As natural disasters grow stronger and more frequent, data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency shows that ...