The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Biggest Natural Disasters 2025 caused over $131 billion in losses. Read about the top 9 biggest natural disasters of 2025 in the United States, including hurricanes, wildfires & tornadoes. The biggest ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

The defining climate story of 2025 was that they unfolded across regions with very different income levels, governance structures and climate readiness, yet produced strikingly similar failures.

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COLOMBO, December 22, 2025—Cyclone Ditwah, which struck Sri Lanka in late November, has caused an estimated US$4.1 billion in direct physical damage to buildings and contents, agriculture and critical ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

The Great Flood seemed promising when Netflix dropped its trailer. It could've been that one disaster movie we all had been waiting to see. But, it misses the opportunity. Infact it gets lost in ...

Sid was born, did some stuff, then decided to become a writer. He finds respite in the sweet embrace of mass media escapism after having risked his life too many times as a journalist covering ...

President Donald Trump issued a quick emergency declaration amid Washington’s historic flooding earlier this month, authorizing initial help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But questions ...

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and the debate has just taken a sharp turn. A group of researchers now say they ...