catastrophe

Thankfully, the same capacity for collaboration that assisted our species’ development throughout history could now avert this catastrophe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Profit was boosted by the company’s investment portfolio—with net investment income up 6% to a record $1.1 billion pre-tax—but was dented by higher catastrophe losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Those are scenarios of varying levels of catastrophe, and that’s kind of how I’ve been seeing speculative fiction lately.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

One evocative idea is that it was a cosmic catastrophe, the explosion of a nearby star—a supernova like the one that produced the Crab Nebula.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Florida’s orange growers have faced a number of catastrophes over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the first half of 2026, insured losses from natural catastrophes were estimated at $42 billion, down from $91 billion a year before, according to the Swiss Re Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Only the thought of the possible catastrophes that might befall such an expedition, and of sustaining damage to my travelling suit, persuaded me to content myself with sitting here on this bench.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro