The latest disasters have highlighted shortcomings ranging from weak enforcement of building codes to chronic underfunding of related scientific programmes, according to the analysts. Those weaknesses ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Farmers are facing what the United States Department of Agriculture is calling a natural disaster. The USDA labeled 25 counties in Alabama Natural Disaster Areas, two of those ...

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2025 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO ...

A hurricane, wildfire, or blackout can arrive without warning — here’s what to have ready before it does. Andi Breitowich works across digital and print magazines covering health, fitness, nutrition, ...

In many communities at high risk for natural disasters, a Wall Street financing tool that's gaining popularity, called a catastrophe bond, may make it easier for homeowners to get insurance. On Oak ...

Multiple studies and institutions have consistently sounded the alarm. The Landslide Atlas of India 2023, published by ISRO, ranks Darjeeling 35th among the country's most landslide-exposed districts.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A professor from the Faculty of Public Health at the University of Indonesia (UI), Fatma Lestari, asserted that the recent landslide at the Freeport Indonesia mine was not merely a ...

The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to ...

A powerful 7.8 magnitude aftershock has struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula—just weeks after a massive 8.8 earthquake shook the same region. The quake triggered tsunami concerns across the Pacific, ...

WORKERS from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office (DEO) continue with the concrete laying on the riverbank protection structure along a river at ...

HANOI (Reuters) -- Vietnam closed airports and evacuated thousands of people in areas under storm threat on Sunday, as intensifying Typhoon Bualoi barrelled towards the country, days after causing at ...