Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked, burned and flooded parts of the world in the first months of 2025. What’s next?

The Axial Seamount is a miles-wide undersea volcano that towers more than 3,600 feet over the seabed. Though it last erupted in 2015, it has a history of more than 50 eruptions over the past 800 years ...

The ruling absolves the company from paying millions of dollars in restitutions to the families of those bereaved in the 2019 explosion on Whakaari, also known as White Island, and two dozen ...