Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman wades through the flood waters in a street of Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 11. Typhoon Yagi, which struck northern Vietnam, ...

Women looked at the rubble of their collapsed house, in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025 (Kyodo News photo via AP Images). Though earthquakes are not climate-related, other natural disasters are ...

BANGKOK – A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world's neediest people are suffering from serious food shortages, ...

New Delhi: The year 2025 saw the most expensive wildfires in the world, according to a new study in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, published on 1 June. Even though the total area burnt this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. A new study by DJC Law sought to identify the most dangerous ...

ZURICH, Switzerland — Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fueled by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Wednesday. Swiss Re, ...

CHISINAU, September 5, 2024—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a $40 million financing package for the Strengthening Moldova’s Disaster Risk Management and Resilience (SMORE) ...

Giving Tuesday has been around since 2012 — a global call for generosity inspired by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Thousands of charities are asking us to donate. And this ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately. A rash of tornados pounded the ...