Governor Bill Walker, I-Alaska, declared the state’s opioid epidemic a public health crisis, according to a report from KYUK. Through the disaster declaration, an estimated $4,058,316 from the state ...

The Ebola epidemic ravaging central Africa is not a natural disaster but a social crime, the predictable product of the Trump ...

Jan. 13 (Asia Today) --South Korea recorded 387 deaths tied to disasters in 2024, with a heatwave accounting for 108 fatalities, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Tuesday. The ministry ...

PARIS, France — Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path? Annual climate reports ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As North Carolina enters the second year of recovery from the devastation caused by ...

Actual deaths resulting from the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year may exceed the official count by hundreds, according to a new study published in JAMA. While the Los Angeles ...

In the chaos of natural disaster, tallying an accurate death toll is often difficult and sometimes not a priority. The aftermath of the Philippines typhoon has been no different, where initial ...

Fukushima Prefecture has recorded a cumulative 2,335 “disaster-related” deaths from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ...