According to Climate Change News, due to geography and scattered coastal populations, Vanuatu has been repeatedly labeled as ...

From 1970 until 2000, the costs of disaster averaged $70-$80 billion. Those mainly preventable costs doubled this century to ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...

Under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE has announced the allocation of ...

Natural disasters have been shaping the path of human history for thousands of years. They leave behind stories of destruction, fatalities, and eventually, survival. They also leave behind stories of ...

World Vision CEO Andrew Morley says city supported children in countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya and ...

It’s the largest portion of the $21 billion in disaster aid approved by Congress at the end of 2024. And this week, USDA announced farmers will be able to start signing up for $16 billion in disaster ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’” The Philippines is among the most disaster-prone ...