UN Agency: 2M Killed, $4.3 Trillion in Damages from Extreme Weather May 23, 2023 GENEVA (AP) – The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning...
Weary of Many Disasters? UN Says Worse to Come April 27, 2022 By Seth Borenstein A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world,...
Rising Global Temperatures ‘Inexorably Closer’ to Climate Tipping Point – U.N. May 27, 2021 By Andrea Januta There is now a 40% chance that global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the...
Typhoon-Lashed Philippines Taps Catastrophe Bonds November 25, 2019 By Siegfrid Alegado and Denise Wee The Philippines, among the world’s most disaster-prone nations, sold its maiden foreign-currency catastrophe-linked bonds to help cover costs of major...
Central Pacific Could See up to 7 Cyclones May 27, 2014 By OSKAR GARCIA The large swath of the Pacific that includes the islands could see four to seven tropical cyclones during the upcoming...
Study Suggests Tropical Cyclone Intensity Shifting Poleward May 16, 2014 The latitude at which tropical cyclones reach their greatest intensity is gradually shifting from the tropics toward the poles at...