Winter storms, tornado outbreaks and major hurricanes caused 24 disasters that have cost more than $1 billion each this year.

Since the 1960s, the world has seen a spike in the number of natural disasters, largely due to rising sea levels and an ever gradually increasing global surface temperature. The good news?

Extreme heat kills more Americans annually than any other natural disaster. Still, a joint investigation between Action News ...

Japan's weather agency has declared a heatwave sweeping the country a natural disaster, with at least 65 deaths recorded in the past week. An agency spokesman warned that "unprecedented levels of ...

JAKARTA, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Hydrometeorological disasters that have hit Sukabumi in Indonesia's West Java province since last Tuesday have claimed at least 10 lives, with two others still missing, the ...

“The fact that some people died of hypothermia is characteristic of disasters occurring in cold regions.” A joint panel of the prefectural and three municipal governments examined 35 deaths ...

"The death toll from the natural disaster in northeastern Libya has exceeded 11,000, with about 20,000 people still missing," the organization said in a statement quoted by the Al Arabiya TV channel.

The number of weather-related disasters to hit the world has increased five-fold over the past 50 years, says the World Meteorological Organization. However, the number of deaths because of the ...

In general, municipal governments determine causal relationships between deaths and disasters and certify each case based on the disaster condolence payment system. Wajima city said 26 bereaved ...

The 10 deadliest extreme weather events of the previous two decades, which contributed to some 570,000 deaths, were all intensified by human-caused climate change, according to a new study from World ...