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 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
World climate change negotiators faced warnings yesterday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok. The week-long meeting in the Thai capital, which was devastated by major floods last year, aims to prepare …
Torrential rain dropped by Hurricane Isaac threatened to burst a dam on Thursday, forcing evacuation of up to 60,000 people in Louisiana and Mississippi and leaving large areas of the region flooded and without power. Isaac, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on Thursday after moving in from the …
Four Chinese fishermen are confirmed dead and eleven others are still unaccounted for after a powerful typhoon sank their fishing boats in South Korean waters early Tuesday morning. 4 dead, 11 missing after typhoon sinks boats Photo of "Yuejiangchengyu" No. 91104 from Weihai city of East China's Shandong province on …
Four Chinese crew members were confirmed drowned and 12 were missing after a strong typhoon battering South Korea pushed their ships onto the rocks Tuesday. Officials issued an alert for almost the entire country as Bolaven -- the strongest typhoon for almost a decade to hit the country -- swept …
A seasonal storm that has lashed Uttaradit's Laplae district since Friday caused flash floods that swamped more than 500 houses and 10,000 rai of farmland in two tambons yesterday. Children wade through floodwater caused by torrential rains in tambon Thung Yang of Uttaradit’s Laplae district yesterday morning. The downpour brought …
Authorities in Shanghai are contesting claims that the city is vulnerable to serious flooding, noting the city's work to build protective bulwarks in recent years and its capability of moving residents out of harm's way amid emergencies. The city's ability to control floods came under scrutiny after a study appearing …
Authorities in Shanghai are contesting claims that the city is vulnerable to serious flooding, noting the city's work to build protective bulwarks in recent years and its capability of moving residents out of harm's way amid emergencies. The city's ability to control floods came under scrutiny after a study appearing …
The latest track of Tropical Storm Isaac puts more than $36 billion in Gulf Coast residential property at risk of flooding from storm surges, with southeastern Louisiana at greatest peril of huge losses, residential data analysis company CoreLogic said on Sunday. Isaac bore down on the Florida Keys Sunday afternoon, …
Rainstorms have battered several southern Chinese provinces this week, toppling homes and killing a woman and her granddaughter in Hunan Province. The woman, 49, was buried together with the child in the rubble of their home that was washed down by flash floods in Shimen county Monday night, the provincial …
Thirteen people are dead and three remain missing following a strong rainstorm that battered the city of Shiyan in Central China's Hubei province from Saturday night to Monday morning, local authorities said Tuesday. The rainstorm has also injured at least 725 people in the city. 13 killed, 3 missing in …
At least nine people have been confirmed dead and four others remained missing in flooding disasters after Typhoon Damrey tore through Northeast China's Liaoning Province during the weekend, according to the provincial flood control authority Monday morning. The flood control headquarters said it is still checking casualty reports from flood-hit …
The death toll from Beijing's devastating downpours on July 21 has risen to 78 after a body was newly found, government authorities said Friday. The body of a 65-year-old man from the neighboring Hebei province was retrieved from a pond near Dongguan village of Fangshan district, according to a statement …
The forest department would launch three new projects to save forests and wildlife of the region, said Secretary Forests Abdul Qayyum khan on Thursday. Talking to media he said these projects were being sponsored by the United Nations which would cost Rs. 40.85 million. He said forests were the assets …
This study looks at changes in North Atlantic tropical storm occurrence in the twenty-first century, and finds that over the first half of the century, storm frequency increases were caused by radiative forcing changes, not increasing carbon dioxide. The chaotic nature of the climate system and the climate response to …
Downpours and flooding have left 11 people dead and 15 missing in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, local authorities said Sunday. Three rounds of powerful rainstorms have buffeted the city of Yulin since July 15, with precipitation surpassing 270 mm in some townships in the worst rainstorms in 200 years, according …
The death toll from Beijing's heaviest rainstorm in six decades more than doubled to 77 after rescuers found more bodies, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing the city's municipal government. Saturday's storm flooded roads, sent torrents of water tumbling down steps into underpasses and drowned a number …
Typhoon Vicente has affected 168,000 people in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, including 9,900 who were forced to evacuate, local authorities said Wednesday. Vicente, this year's eighth typhoon, made landfall near the city of Taishan in Guangdong province early Tuesday, bringing gales and rainstorms to Guangdong and Guangxi. Between Tuesday night …
Torrential rain has ravaged China's 17 provincial areas since July 20, leaving 95 dead and another 45 missing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Monday. Natural disasters caused by the downpours had affected about 6.23 million people in 264 counties in 17 provincial areas such as Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, …
Torrential rain last week affected more than 2 million people in several southern Chinese provinces, according to local authorities. More than 13,000 residents in a southwestern Chinese prefecture have been evacuated as rainstorms lashed the area on Monday, local authorities said. Authorities in the Kaikou township in Qiannan prefecture of …
Torrential rain has ravaged south and central China's provincial areas since July 11, leaving 30 dead and another four missing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Tuesday. Natural disasters -- strong wind, hail, floods, landslides and mudslides -- caused by the downpours had affected about 7.4 million people in …
