British aid workers are coordinating an emergency response to the powerful earthquake that has hit China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 100 peo...

More than 100 people are known to have been killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake in Sichaun province, China. According to state off...

This focus on the very young is perhaps a natural reflex, yet we mustn't allow it to blind us to the needs of older people. As a doctor myself, and currently president of an international medical humanitarian organisation operating in emergencies around the world, I want to challenge our sense that we should always focus first on the needs of the very young in emergencies.

One dead, hundreds displaced as flooding blights Britain. ...

As a result of Hurricane Sandy, the current Caribbean death toll is greater than the current US death toll although news coverage would suggest otherwise. There are already victims yet the focus is on the prospective fatalities - namely in America.

Earlier this week, an Italian judge summarily convicted seven participants in a meeting of the Italian Serious Risks Commission who evaluated the haza...

Specialist insurance market Lloyd's of London announced its most profitable half-year results since 2008. Lloyd’s, a marketplace in London where ...

As Hurricane Isaac crashed on to land, some Louisiana residents ignored warnings of potentially life-threatening storm surges and 100mph gusts and sim...

A second volcano in New Zealand has experienced a small eruption just days after Mount Tongariro burst into life for the first time in more than a cen...

Large swathes of Britain remain on flood alert with more heavy and persistent downfalls forecast to further dampen the summer season. Storms that b...

The death of nine climbers - including three Britons - in the French Alps is the latest avalanche to claim the lives of mountaineers. The avalanche...

During the chaos that ensued after an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, the Thai wing of KFC has come under fire over a comme...

A British woman has described the moment she was crushed by a giant wave during a round-the-world yacht race. Jane Hitchins was left with injuries ...

The last few days I have spent scouring the tsunami-devastated coastline of Japan's north-east. From Ishinomaki to Onagawa, Shichigahama to Kesennuma, the landscape has been drastically altered as Japan presses on with the world's costliest disaster recovery till date.

The death toll continues to rise in the wake of powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes that ripped across the American Midwest. At least 35 people ha...

Imagine walking into a minefield before realising you are in deep trouble and help is hours away. Picture yourself in the middle of a crowd that is fast turning into a mob. Visualise your colleague has been shot at by rebels and has a life-threatening bleeding wound.

Besides Hispaniola itself- the second largest island in the Caribbean, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share one more thing in common - their seismic fault lines.

Governments and businesses are unprepared for "high impact, low probability" (HILP) events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, acco...

Christchurch has been hit by a series of "strong" earthquakes, closing the airport and causing buildings and a shopping centre to be evacuated. Loc...

If you're moaning about the weather or the economy this Christmas, don't! We had it easy in the UK during 2011. This year will go down in history as one expensive and lengthy meteorological and environmental disaster. I