This video investigates the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon, where a sudden release of carbon dioxide suffocated entire ...

Unlike tourist-packed destinations, there are places so perilous that only a few dare to visit. The dangers come from violent ...

The Lake Nyos disaster is one of nature’s most mysterious and tragic events. Located in Cameroon, Lake Nyos is a crater lake that became infamous after a sudden and devastating event on August 21, ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Thursday it will make disaster assistance funds available to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to help with recovery from a derecho that struck the area ...

Pangcah/Amis tribe members from the Fata’an community performing a group dance at the 2016 Amis Music Festival in Dulan Village, Taitung County, Taiwan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ HaeB When torrential ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — A Devils Lake man will get a fresh shot at freedom, 30 years after being convicted of murder. A judge has agreed to hear 65-year-old Werner Kunkel’s claim of innocence. His lawyers ...

In the 1974 classic “Chinatown,” water wasn’t just water — it was power. Los Angeles power brokers quietly drained reservoirs, drove up scarcity, while ordinary citizens paid the price in higher costs ...

Sumter County Long Term Recovery Group Gains Official Status with $235,000 in Grants for Storm Survivors United Way Lake & Sumter Announces Key Milestone Recognition as Community Impact Program LAKE ...

GREENVILLE — Water is now flowing over a newly built Lake Conestee Dam two years ahead of schedule, averting a possible environmental disaster that had loomed over the Upstate for years. Since 1892, a ...

The decision on whether to don a life jacket when a pleasant day devolved into a freak storm made a critical difference in the passengers’ fate. Six people were found dead in the water without life ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Travis County Judge Andy Brown updated the county’s ongoing disaster declaration, associated with the July 4 floods in Central Texas, specifically addressing the use of Lake Travis.