Scientists currently estimate that sea levels could rise more than six feet by the year 2100. If that comes true, American homes worth nearly $900 billion could be underwater. Not just in the financial sense.

Today, more evidence that pensions are a slow-moving disaster that will in your lifetime consume our nation like the inexorable creep of hot lava down a volcano’s edge consumes everything in its path.

BP says that the total cost to the company for its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be nearly $62 billion. That is nearly eight times the total annual budget of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The Venezuelan military has seized control of the nation’s major ports and has been placed in charge of distributing food in an attempt to deter murderous, starving food bandits. That is not even the worst news.

NBC says it will air the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics on a one-hour delay in order to “curate [it to not show any possible Zika deaths, riots, terrorist acts, or faulty stadium collapses].”

In Southern California, the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded, and ready to roll,” according to one earthquake scientist. Thanks for being so colorful, dude.

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake stuck Ecuador on Saturday night, leaving 77 dead and over 500 more injured. The quake, the strongest in the country since 1979, left it in a national state of emergency.

An earthquake that struck the southern city of Tainan in Taiwan early Saturday morning toppled an enormous 100-family high-rise building, leaving 11 people dead and 475 injured, according to CNN.

The death toll for a wave of storms and flooding hitting the central and southern U.S. is continuing to climb.

A giant hole has opened up on a Wyoming ranch, the end is nigh.

Have you noticed anything odd going on this morning? Oh yes. Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.

Since righting the vessel on Friday, rescue personnel have recovered hundreds of bodies from a capsized passenger ship on the Yangtze River, bringing the official death toll to 406 as of Saturday, the L.A. Times reports. According to the Associated Press, this makes the Eastern Star disaster the country’s deadliest…

Since its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists to make a lot of money while practicing “post-text” journalism. You can debate whether it’s accomplished either of those things, but one thing that can’t be debated is that no one is actually…

Bangladeshi authorities have charged 42 people with murder in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers. If we see an international minimum wage in our lifetime, they won’t have died in vain.

According to governmental officials, "about 50 people" are believed to have died after a crowded ferry capsized off the western coast of Myanmar Friday night. AFP News reports that the bodies of four men and 29 women have been recovered so far, with at least 12 people still missing.

It is less accurate to call California "a U.S. state" than it is to call it "a future earthquake-induced rubble pile." As happens quite often, scientists have once again made their doomsaying forecasts about California's disastrous future even worse.