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 released last week ...

The Who concert disaster took place in December 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, when a crowd surge before the show killed 11 fans.

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Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In the wake of a large-scale disaster, from the initial devastation through the long ...

HONG KONG — The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets ...

An ad hoc committee conducted a review and assessment of the current state of the field and best practices in assessing and quantifying mortality and significant morbidity following large-scale ...

Climate scientists say that human-driven global warming is bringing hotter summers, worse droughts, fiercer wildfires and other destructive weather events - Copyright ...