The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are some of the natural disasters that have contributed to global ...

National Geographic’s series takes a detailed look at how engineering failures, government missteps, and media chaos turned a natural disaster into a national catastrophe.

The U.S. alone faced 27 natural disasters that reached damages of $1 billion or more in 2024, for a total economic cost of $182.7 billion. And these events are expected to continue or worsen in ...