Natural disaster losses worldwide dropped sharply to $224 billion in 2025, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, but warned of a still "alarming" picture of extreme weather events likely driven by climate ...

People living in regions with lower scores on the Human Development Index face a substantially higher risk from climate-related disasters, even when these are not unusually severe. This is the key ...

On September 30, the coastal city of Bogo in the Philippines was hit by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that caused at least 72 casualties and left 294 people injured. This is the deadliest earthquake the ...

Wildfire disasters worldwide are growing notably in frequency and cost, according to a new study, with nearly half of the most damaging events over the last 44 years occurring in just the past decade, ...

Dehradun: Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change minister Bhupender Yadav on Friday said that climate change and anthropogenic factors have led to an increase in disasters worldwide, requiring a ...

Nearly 15 years after the series of underground explosions at Pike River coal mine in New Zealand, some of the families of the 29 workers killed in the disaster are fighting to expose the full truth ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction promotes a global culture of risk awareness and disaster reduction by celebrating how people around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. This ...