Floods are one of the most common and expensive natural disasters around the world. They can happen because of heavy rain, ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately. A rash of tornados pounded ...

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From tornadoes and floods to wildfires and cyclones, the toll on human life and property has been severe, with regions around ...

Places like Maui and Asheville, North Carolina, rebuilding after wildfires and hurricanes, are doing so with a mind to ...

When I visited the town of Paiporta recently, the mud and the wrecked cars had been cleared away, but the high-water marks ...

Florida is the worst state for natural-disaster monetary losses, with 94 natural disasters costing around $456.4 billion since 1980, followed by Texas ($440.6 billion), Louisiana ($318.1 billion ...

Though earthquakes are not climate-related, other natural disasters are expected to intensify in the face of climate change, leading many governments, policymakers and activists around the world ...

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However more can, and must, be done to support and engage children and youth around the world in DRR ... age about the risks posed by natural hazards, children will have a better chance to save their ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma. Relief ...