The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting worldwide lockdowns triggered the longest and most pronounced drop in human-made noise in recorded history, an international team of scientists said on Thurs...

The nature and severity of natural and man-made disasters have been increasing globally. Natural calamities are now occurring at an unnatural frequency wherein cyclones, floods, earthquakes, which use...

Pilgrim town Kedarnath has drawn more than seven lakh tourists this year, more than one a half times the number who visited in 2017, indicating that fears over the weather and memories of a natural ca...

Desperate residents stranded on rooftops amid swirling currents. Rescue efforts stalled by flooded vehicles and roads turned to rivers. Communications in ruins and basic infrastructure — including s...

Cyclone Fani has passed, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The early warning system, effective disaster response plans, investments in disaster shelters and systematic deployment of volunteers on...

Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are e...

Body bags were laid out along the shattered coastline as Indonesian authorities stepped up efforts to collect the dead and save the injured Monday in the aftermath of a tsunami that was apparently tri...

The number of people killed after torrential downpours triggered flash floods and mudslides that tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province has climbed to 79, with dozens o...

Its fist is raised, knuckle an inch away from the door. It could stay there and stay and stay. On the other hand... ‘It’ is the mother of all earthquakes. And the ‘door’ is our own central Him...

A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm on the night of September 20 and is expected to hit the Odisha coast near Gopalpur shortly, the India Meteorological Departme...