Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

Natural disasters can be categorized as "acute" or "slow" in their onset. They are predictable because they cluster in geographic areas. Natural hazards are unpreventable and, for the most part ...

The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...

While winter often means cozy, homey weather, it can also mean severe storms. In fact, billion-dollar winter disasters from ...