Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

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Floods rank as the world’s third deadliest climate disaster from 1995–2024, while becoming the second costliest globally with ...