The economic cost of natural and man-made disasters jumped threefold to $218 billion in 2010 from $68 billion the previous year, with earthquakes the main cause of death and destruction, insurer Swiss ...

Extreme weather in the United States brings with it a high price tag, according to a new federal report. In the last three decades, 99 weather disasters have caused a billion or more dollars in damage ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

It's not tornadoes or fires. Earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. In the United States, flooding is the most frequent and costly natural disaster. Just one inch of water can cause $25,000 in damage to a ...