Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

This once-thriving mining town was mostly abandoned after a coal seam fire ignited beneath it in 1962 and continues to burn ...

KING Tutankhamun’s tomb is on the brink of collapse and could crumble down in a devastating disaster, archaeologists have ...

American ski mountaineer Jim Morrison has made history by becoming the first person to ski down Mount Everest’s North Face ...

The National Assessment considered 10 priority hazards (including temperature increases, drought, bushfires, storms, flooding and ocean warming) over historical (1850-1900), current (2011-2030), ...

Villages in Western Alaska were hit by the remnants of a violent typhoon last week. Many survivors are unlikely to return ...

The UN-GGIM-AP is one of five regional committees under the umbrella of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global ...

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Philippines called for investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) to make the country’s most ...

The photographer has borne witness to conflict and suffering for three decades. Now her own story is told in a documentary ...

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

A series of earthquakes have been recorded in the Canary Islands in recent days including a tremor measuring 3.4 on the ...