The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drives the largest year-to-year climate variability on Earth. This deep dive updates my past analyses of the relationship of (a) ENSO and U.S. hurricane damage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just a few of the natural disasters that have contributed to more ...

Wildfire disasters worldwide are growing notably in frequency and cost, according to a new study, with nearly half of the most damaging events over the last 44 years occurring in just the past decade, ...

How can anyone seek shelter from a natural disaster they don't even know is coming? Last year the United Nations called for every person on the planet to be covered by early warning systems by ...

Scientists have long predicted that global climate change could fuel an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters including hurricanes, heatwaves and cold snaps, droughts and floods ...

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments set targets to substantially reduce deaths and economic losses from disasters at a U.N. conference in Japan on Wednesday, but critics were ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal: Sitting on the floor of a makeshift shelter for survivors of Nepal's deadly recent floods, Tenzin Dolma Ghale said she had nothing left but the clothes she was wearing. Her entire ...

I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...

Global insured losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in the first nine months of 2026, 29% below the 10-year ...

Australia could be one of the safest places on Earth if, or rather when, a global catastrophe strikes. New research has found Australia's isolation, self-sufficiency, and political stability mean it ...