DISASTERS

In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, Chase bank has found a heart for potential suffering customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut: Staff will be increased, banking hours will be extended, and that banking overdraft fees and credit card late fees will be waived.

Granted, if Irene had crossed closer to Manhattan, I’d be singing a different tune.

He has already long suggested that Americans stockpile food ahead of an inevitable global disruption in food.

Roger Pielke, a University of Colorado professor and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, warned that Irene is “probably going to be very damaging.”

The storm comes just a week after an unprecedented magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck central Virginia.

New York is in the eye of Hurricane Irene's path. Here's why America's largest city faces high risk from Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene caused as much as $1.1 billion in insured losses in the Caribbean, catastrophe modeling company AIR Worldwide said on Friday, with more expected to come as the storm heads for the U.S. Northeast.

I remain skeptical that any of this will actually occur.

Amazon, hurricane Web sites have various books on the subject.

Hurricane Irene is tracking toward a potential direct hit on New York, America's largest city. The damage from such a storm could be major. Here's why.

The race to pick Japan's sixth leader in five years appeared on Friday to be shaping up as a battle between the most popular contender and a rival backed by a party powerbroker, although with five candidates in play, the outcome was hard to call.

It has been quite a year for New York, as the city has been hit with tornadoes, a blizzard, a heat wave, an earthquake and now a hurricane.

While no one can know ahead of time just how much destruction a Category 3 Hurricane like Irene will do, specialty companies that specialize in catastrophic risk analysis are armed with historical data as well as links to national computer centers that track the storm in real time.

Irene is expected to arrive on the East Coast on Saturday.

In the annals of natural disasters, it doesn't get much worse than a major hurricane directly striking New York City and Long Island.

Even if Irene reaches New York as a weakened Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane, it could still wreak havoc because the city is simply not prepared to handle such storms the way Florida or the Gulf Coast are. In a worst-case scenario, here are the top five threats New York City would face from a major hurricane.

While preparing for a major hurricane, the U.S. has seen an unusual amount of earthquake activity this week

The El Nino climate cycle brings not only high temperatures and dry weather, but also possibly civil wars, a new study claims.Between 1950 and 2004, the risk of civil wars doubled in 90 tropical countries when bit by El Nino every three to seven years, according to a study published in Wednesday's Nature.

Robertson, a native of Virginia, the epicenter of the quake, has long associated natural disasters with the ‘end of times’ and prophecies in the Bible.

The arrival of Hurricane Irene over the Caribbean once again prompts fanatics to feed into the “global warming” hoax.

Earthquakes are far more common than most Americans are aware