BP Plc managed Thursday to lower a containment cap onto its ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico in...
Disaster (Flood,Coastal,EQ,W-Fire,etc.) News
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said Wednesday as they predicted...
Tropical Cyclone Phet roared toward the coast of Oman and was expected to make landfall late on Thursday at the...
Gaylord Entertainment Co. says it expects the total remediation and rebuild cost for its properties in Nashville, Tennessee damaged by...
Investigators probing the nation’s worst coal mining disaster in 40 years plan to enter the Upper Big Branch mine for...
Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, under a second director since Craig Fugate left a year ago to run its federal...
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide described the early tropical storm Agatha as “short-lived, but deadly,” as it “wreaked havoc...
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to produce 10 hurricanes, five of them major, the Colorado State University hurricane...
The Obama administration told Transocean Ltd. in a letter last week it was “simply unconscionable” for the drilling firm to...
Oil from BP’s out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters...