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International reinsurance company Swiss Re has released a study predicting that total global insured losses caused by natural ...
The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year ...
Just as Americans are entering what has been forecast to be a potentially worse-than-average Atlantic hurricane season ...
As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than ...
Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel ...
During a press conference Tuesday, The UN World Food Programme (WFP) raised concerns about the humanitarian situation worsening in Haiti with the coming hurricane season. The WFP said that political ...