Ancient buildings like Greece’s amphitheaters and Japan’s temples remain in use today, preserving cultural heritage.

The state pivots from ad hoc relief to a dual-trigger insurance model to secure fiscal stability and provide ₹10 lakh ...

Eight of the 10 costliest natural disasters in U.S. history have been hurricanes, and damage from Hurricane Ian cost nearly $113 billion dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster in America in ...

Environmental disasters generally fall into two categories: natural and manmade. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 ...

From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

Integrating deep learning with traditional forecasting techniques can improve early warning systems by capitalizing on each ...

Cyclones accounted for over half the losses on the continent, Munich Re reports, with less than 20% of the damages covered by insurance. Natural disasters in Africa caused about $3 billion in economic ...

In 2025, losses from natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific cost around $73bn. These work out to about one third of the total global losses due to natural disasters in 2025. This is also above the ...

Following a spate of deadly disasters in 2025, Kentucky legislators will weigh solutions in this year's session. Bills filed in the first days of the legislative session would establish a new ...

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from Climate Central. There were 23 such events in 2025, causing 276 fatalities ...

Three hours before dawn on February 6, 2023, a 29-year-old pastrymaker named Nuri Imren woke to the sound of his sister screaming. His family’s high-rise apartment in the Turkish city of Antakya was ...

On March 28, Myanmar was hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another of 6.4-magnitude. The epicenter was located west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city. Tremors were felt in ...