Millions of users and businesses were affected on 20 October 2025 when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a widespread outage that disrupted major websites, banking apps and online services worldwide.

A game that turns virtual farming into a movement for real-world resilience. Created by Pakistani duo Nabhan and Kenan Khan ...

When cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) falters, it's not just one website that disappears—it's a large slice of the internet. On 20 October 2025, multiple platforms including Snapchat, Canva and ...

Ripple effect: An Amazon Web Services outage knocked dozens of popular online platforms offline across much of the world, including Amazon, Alexa, Ring, Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, ChatGPT, and the ...

President Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery onto states. It’s already happening. By Scott Dance Life is inching back to normal in the town of Cave ...

Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on the rise. Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows ...

President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and ...

Global insurance losses from natural disasters have eclipsed $100 billion in 2025, even as subdued hurricane activity has resulted in unusually low third-quarter costs so far. Preliminary insured ...

"This dataset was simply too important to stop being updated." For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disaster dataset put a dollar figure on the cost of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — New research shows how a variety of natural disasters are impacting the nation's food supply, presenting costly challenges to ranchers and farmers who are already struggling. The full ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...