Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound ...

In February 2025, a waste pit at a copper mine operated by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia collapsed, releasing millions of gallons of highly acidic toxic sludge laced with heavy metals into nearby rivers ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

Monika Graff / Getty Images Dr. Latoya Storr was an emergency medicine physician for a hospital in Grand Bahama when Hurricane Dorian ripped across the island in 2019. The hospital flooded four feet ...

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Munich Re – the world’s largest reinsurer – has released its global disaster loss calculation for 2023, coming in at a total of US $250 billion. This roughly equals the entire GDP of New Zealand or ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more ...

At the start of September, torrential rain in the Mediterranean led to severe flooding, infrastructure damage and deaths in multiple countries. As climate change expedites more extreme weather events ...

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration ”retired” in May, has relaunched ...

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

The Himachal Pradesh Human Development Report 2025, jointly prepared by the state and the UNDP, serves as the first ...

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