Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, intense, and costly. In 2024 alone, global natural disasters resulted in an estimated $368 billion in economic losses, with 60% of these losses ...

On Thursday, rubber gate No. 3 burst due to leakages caused by the high heat index, according to Manuel Lukban Jr., head of the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (DRRMO).

The U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction will hold an Asia-Pacific ministerial conference in the city of Sendai in autumn 2027, it was learned Tuesday. Such a meeting will be held in Japan for ...

PROJECT. KCRA THREE IS ON A HEATED JAFARI SHOWS US WHO THIS WILL IMPACT. THE FLOOD RISK REDUCTION PROJECT IS BEGINNING ITS FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION WITH A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY TO CELEBRATE ...

levels also reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, outside experts noted. "A phase 3 trial testing the clinical impact of this drug is needed to see if the large reduction of Lp(a ...

Suphachol Suphachalasai, Barry Maher, Danielle N Minnett, and Junko Mochizuki. "Bangladesh: Disaster Risk Financing", High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports ...

underscoring the urgent need to shift from reactive disaster response to proactive disaster risk reduction (DRR). The economic toll of these disasters is staggering. Hurricane Helene ...

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction—an organization that DOGE would certainly eliminate if it could—came up with a more sophisticated figure in 2023: By its estimate ...

Home insurance costs have soared for Americans in the most disaster-prone areas in recent years. Those in the most risky zip codes pay 82% higher premiums than those in low-risk areas, the ...

According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), millions of people worldwide are affected annually by disasters arising from extreme natural phenomena such as storms, ...