WASHINGTON – The Atlantic's warmer waters triggered the unusual number of major hurricanes last year, according to a new study that predicts the region could see a couple of extra whopper storms each ...

Wilson Reyes, 44, uses a solar lamp while walking in the dark May 11 in Jayuya, Puerto Rico. The island’s fragile power system is still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria eight ...

(Reuters Health) - Hurricane Maria claimed 73 times more lives in Puerto Rico than the official death toll of 64, according to new calculations based on a survey of thousands of residents by a team ...

The number of people killed by police in 2015 was undercounted by more than half, a new study from Harvard shows. The law enforcement-related deaths were not documented on subjects’ death certificates ...

Two years after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, new research suggests around 18.2 million people have died worldwide as a result. That toll is more than three ...

Officially, nearly 1.1 million individuals have died from COVID-19 in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but that’s not counting the 268,176 people who died ...

FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 satellite image made available by NOAA shows the eye of Hurricane Irma, left, just north of the island of Hispaniola, with Hurricane Jose, right, in the Atlantic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Atlantic’s warmer waters triggered the unusual number of major hurricanes last year, according to a new study that predicts the region could see a couple of extra whopper storms ...