The word "disaster" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to events that cause great damage or harm. For example: "The hurricane was a disaster for the small town, leaving homes and businesses in ruins."
"I've worked multiple disasters, but I've never worked an ice storm with a forecast like this.
Ministers who might have forseen impending disasters were left astonishingly ignorant of major developments in their portfolios.
The charity wanted to be able to help in disasters like Haiti.
DfID has committed to spending 30% of its budget in fragile states, splashing out£3.4bn on state-building, health and education in 28 countries that have been affected by conflict and humanitarian disasters, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia, from 2014-15.
No trade union leader since the second world war had to cope with such a catalogue of disasters, nor become so embroiled in a climate of political and industrial decline, as Norman Willis, the former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who has died aged 81.
We take so much for granted... What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth … and what if people were already kind of over it?
In the case of Ebola for example, AirLink, a humanitarian response organisation which connects NGOs and airlines to respond to rapid-onset disasters, established an air-bridge to fly vital supplies, equipment and personnel into west Africa.
Mining remains the nation's chief source of income, but environmental concerns are growing ever more pressing – Australia is suffering through its hottest summer ever, battered by an increasing number of natural disasters.
The film "Waiting for Health Care" documents ER disasters in California.
For launch, the Guardian has unveiled both a series examining how six cities around the world have attempted to rebuild after natural disasters, and a network of new urban voices who live in cities all over the globe.
The Advanced Energy for Life campaign was crafted by Burson Marsteller, a public relations firm that worked with the Nigerian government and Argentina junta when they were accused of massacres and disappearances, and helped the nuclear, chemical and energy companies after environmental disasters.
