climate disasters, Tag

Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human and economic vulnerability, with global average mortality and economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively, from 1980–1989 to 2007–2016....

New figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) show that more people were displaced by weather disasters in 2020 than by violent conflicts...

Wildfires in the boreal forests of the far Northern Hemisphere are surviving the winter and picking up again in spring according to a new study published in Nature...

The United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction is so obscure they don't even have their own ambassador. But according to a study, unless the UNDRR receives more money, disasters could soon claim a trillion dollars per...

When a hurricane hits a populated stretch of coast, which is almost invariably, it is inevitable losses will be big. But while last year was a busy year for hurricanes, we do know that the frequency of US hurricanes has not...

According to a new United Nations report, "It is baffling that we willingly and knowingly continue to sow the seeds of our own destruction, despite the science and evidence that we are turning our only home into an uninhabitable...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The University of New South Wales, birthplace of the Ship of Fools expedition which got stuck in the Antarctic ice, is concerned that people rapidly switch to other priorities, when disasters which...