2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Storms
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Climate, conflict and forced migration
<p>Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to
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Multi-hazard risks in New York City
<p>Megacities are predominantly concentrated along coastlines, making them exposed to a diverse mix of natural hazards.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/NewYork_City_Hazards.pdf"
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Loss Due to Flood and Thunderstorm, 11/12/2018
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Loss Due to Flood and Thunderstorm, 11/12/2018. State-wise details of the losses of lives, property and loss of crops due to floods and thunderstorm during the current year,
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Global Climate Risk Index 2019
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/large/2018-10-01/0.21759200_1538374647_gettyimages-845085006-flood.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />The
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Natural hazard mitigation saves: 2018 interim report
This 2018 interim report updates and expands upon mitigation measures studied in 2005 by evaluating a broad suite of mitigation measures that can inform decision-making around investments to reduce the
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One in 100 year storm lashes Australia; gale-force winds elsewhere fan fires
Torrential rain and gale force winds lashed Australia’s biggest city of Sydney on Wednesday causing commuter chaos, flooding streets, railway stations and homes, grounding flights and leaving hundreds
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Wheat and Barley Shortage Devastates Iraq
Iraq’s farmlands are declining due to lack of rainfall and depleted soils, a report by the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics has revealed. Wheat and barley were affected particularly hard, the
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Economic losses, poverty & disasters: 1998-2017
This report evaluates total disaster-related economic losses and fatalities between 1998 and 2017. The report finds that between 1998 and 2017, climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million
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Flooding under changing climate in Vellar river basin using global circulation models
<p>Flooding is one of the major natural disasters from a storm event that is prevalent in many countries and greatly affects river morphology, modifying the flora and fauna of a given river environment.
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Florence is nation's second wettest storm, behind Harvey
Hurricane Florence was the nation's second rainiest storm in 70 years, a top rainfall meteorologist calculated. Only last year's Hurricane Harvey rained more over a 14,000 square mile (36,260 square