PARIS, France — Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme ...

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The impacts of climate change, associated sea level rise and extreme weather are amplifying as a result of record greenhouse gas levels and combining with urbanization, environmental degradation and ...

It rises like a mountain, up and to the right, and it has become one of the most potent illustrations of the perils of man-made global warming. It’s a chart showing the number of billion-dollar ...

Myanmar’s deadly earthquake exposes void left by US in global disaster responses (CNN) — As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing ...

Floods, droughts and heat waves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia.

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should that ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern Japan, offering rare insights into how ocean currents in the North Pacific ...

Organized by the World Bank’s Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub managed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), in collaboration with Global Program for Resilient ...