Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate disasters cost the world more than $120bn (£95bn) in 2025, with the true toll expected to be far higher as the deadliest ...

The top three aspects of a natural disaster that respondents weren’t prepared for included losing power for an extended period of time (47%), seeing the destruction (39%) and the amount of time it ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM CDT Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since ...

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An ad hoc committee conducted a review and assessment of the current state of the field and best practices in assessing and quantifying mortality and significant morbidity following large-scale ...

As many know from experience, disasters can happen to anyone, anywhere. Natural or human-caused disasters can be highly ...

Climate disasters cost the world more than $120bn (£95bn) in 2025, with the true toll expected to be far higher as the deadliest events in poorer countries were largely uninsured and undercounted, a ...