Scientists and emergency managers are trying to learn from disasters past. The amount of damage caused by billion-dollar disasters reached an unprecedented amount in 2024, and the total cost of ...

And when disaster strikes, that deficit can deepen and ongoing disparities can widen, said Crow, the University of Colorado Denver professor. Disaster recovery played heavily into the formation of ...

“It drew attention to how natural hazards can (become) disasters because of the number of people who are vulnerable, particularly in coastal settings throughout Southeast Asia,” said Professor ...

Experts said South Korea's aviation industry has a solid track record for safety and this was the first fatal accident Jeju Air had experienced since it was launched. In a press conference, the ...

Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. The Boxing Day quake was one of the largest ever recorded.

Schools, hospitals, and essential infrastructure destroyed by the disaster have been reconstructed. In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in ...

Vanuatu has been hit by another earthquake as Canberra announced more financial assistance and hundreds of Aussies returned home.

The year 2024 was marked by a series of devastating natural disasters, conflicts, and accidents, which left a profound impact on communities worldwide. While many of these events were natural ...

World Weather Attribution, experts on how global warming influences extreme events, said nearly every disaster they analysed over the past 12 months was intensified by climate change. 'The impacts ...

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues "escaped death narrowly" at Yemen's main airport when Israeli airstrikes targeted the ...

WATCH LIVE: Trump takes a victory lap in Arizona after his best battleground performance of 2024 ...