The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year ...

International reinsurance company Swiss Re has released a study predicting that total global insured losses caused by natural ...

As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than ...

In 2024 disasters displaced a record number of people both globally and in the U.S. About 11 million U.S. residents had to relocate to another part of the country because of hurricanes, floods and wil ...

Just as Americans are entering what has been forecast to be a potentially worse-than-average Atlantic hurricane season ...

Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet ...

Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel ...

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after David Richardson, the head of the US ...

Most recently, in the aftermath of the August 2023 Maui wildfires, FEMA came through big time — going well beyond its normal ...

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 ...

The Japanese government is to set up a database of registered food trucks that would provide hot meals in the event of natural disasters.