A horror crash has left at least 17 people dead and at least 21 injured after a funicular tram derailed and ploughed into a building in Lisbon last night. Lisbon's Gloria Funicular - one of the ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could better ...

Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an analysis released Wednesday. ...

The study used data from EM-DAT, the largest public database of disaster-related deaths. Rather than focusing on individual catastrophes, the research uses a statistical approach designed to reveal ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Wednesday marks 40 years since the NASA space shuttle Challenger broke apart after lifting off, killing all seven people on board off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.