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 ...

major disasters around the world, leading to fatalities and environmental catastrophes. Angela Renee Jimenez & Refugio Manuel ...

There were 90 declarations of “major disasters” in 2024, making it one of the worst years for disasters declarations in the last three decades.

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 ...

The Myanmar quake is the first major natural disaster since that work started ... Coincidentally, like hundreds of other USAID staffers around the world, the three had received layoff notices from the ...

And I wanted my first bill to be an effort to address them, but also to address the incredible risks of climate-related disasters around the state of California and around the country,” Schiff ...

In my time at USAID, I led response teams helping people during wars and after natural disasters around the world, on behalf of the U.S. government and the American people. My teams were the face ...

and 1,251 disaster days. Climate scientists have repeatedly warned that extreme weather events around the world are becoming more intense. “One of the big drivers of these extreme events is the ...