Stories tagged "naturaldisasters"

Massive boulders peeled away from a cliff and buried dozens of homes in an Egyptian shantytown Saturday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said. Rescuers were digging by hand to reach any survivors.

Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to new research.

The National Hurricane Center upgraded its hurricane watch to a warning early Sunday as New Orleans residents prepared to leave the city under a mandatory evacuation order.

She was unforgettable in Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke." Now Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc explains what the storm took away -- and never could.

Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north.

Trouble the Water" is a documentary made by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, a pair of professional filmmakers who worked with Michael Moore on "Fahrenheit 9/11," and like other documentaries it's a movie about real people and their lives, designed to...

There was no disguising the emotional resilience of the people in a village in China’s Sichuan Province, an area hit hard by the earthquake.

FIERCE winds and rain have hammered New Zealand, killing five people and cutting electricity to more than 70,000 homes.

Vital communication equipment is being blocked from entering the worst affected areas hit by the Burma Cyclone.

China faces growing demand for mental health care in the aftermath of last month's devastating earthquake, which killed at least 70,000 people and left millions homeless, the World Health Organization said Friday.