Every year, extreme weather events wreak havoc across Canada, disrupting the lives of tens of thousands. Financial losses ...

A disaster within 62 miles of a region leads to an additional 0.5% GDP loss, on average. These spillovers make up nearly half ...

The growing impact of severe weather events is expected to drive an increase in home foreclosures and cost mortgage lenders billions—a trend that could drive mortgage rates higher, according to a new ...

A new report from a reinsurance company tallies the total global economic cost of last year’s many disasters, and these photos capture the devastation From wildfires to mudslides, 2017 was a tough ...

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With Asia accounting for four of the world’s six costliest weather disasters in 2025, experts urge investment in climate resilience.

Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a UN report said ...

Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports. But these disasters are killing ...

Report shows weather disasters now cause 7 times more damage, but fewer deaths. Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the ...

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, 403 weather and climate disasters that cost at least $1 billion each killed nearly 17,000 people in the United States between 1980 and ...

An unsettling pace of history-bending weather disasters unfolded around the world in 2023, including Libya’s horrific flooding and Hawaii’s tragic blazes 2023 kicked off by churning out the ...

The death toll from weather disasters across Sri Lanka has climbed to 212, according to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC). The highest fatalities have been reported from the Badulla District, with ...