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

Natural disasters are profoundly destructive events, leaving a trail of injury, death, property damage, and economic loss in their wake. Examples of such events include earthquakes, hurricanes ...

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 ...

Yet the elevated death toll in Valencia also has to be understood ... protection mechanisms [for workers in the case of ...

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 ...

Himachal Pradesh (HP) recorded the second-highest number of deaths in hydro-meteorological disasters in the country this year, with 358 fatalities reported due to rains, landslides, and cloudburst ...