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 …
In the tornado-torn rural stretches and cities of the South, the scope and size of a newly homeless population are beginning to sink in. Shirley Baker, 54, lost her Tuscaloosa apartment in the storms and has moved in with her mother, but no one wants the situation to be long-term. …
Four people were killed, scores injured, hundreds of houses razed, trees and power supply poles uprooted as nor'wester lashed Thakurgaon, Bogra, Nilphamari and Manikganj on Monday and Tuesday. In Thakurgaon, Swapna, 35, wife Poresh Chandra at Durgapur village in Pirganj was killed in her house in lightning strike during storm …
Surreal beach sight: Half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living We were on a beach, somewhere close to Puducherry. It was a surreal sight: half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or cyclone, …
About 100 houses were smashed to the ground and a large number of trees were uprooted as a short lasting violent storm lashed Uttar Suti Para village of Kundopukur union of sadar upazila on Monday night (02 May). 10 people were also injured and power supply was disrupted in surrounding …
Four people were killed and three others injured in separate lightning strikes in Chuadanga, Comilla, Kishoreganj and Satkhira while four passengers injured and another was missing as boat capsized during storm in Bhola on Wednesday. In Satkhira, lightning strike instantly killed Mohammad Abdul Zabbar, 47, son of Mohammad Ali when …
One person was killed and at least 700 houses were damaged as nor'wester lashed Moulvibazar, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts on Monday night and early yesterday. In Moulvibazar, a day labourer was killed and over 100 houses were damaged as nor'wester swept over Dolubari, Bhunobir, Shasan, Boulashir and Mirjapur villages in …
While tornadoes and floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest, the remote western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle is quietly enduring a weather calamity of its own: its longest drought on record, even worse than the Dust Bowl, when incessant winds scooped up the soil into billowing black clouds …
Environmental groups on Tuesday sued the city of Chicago's water treatment authority, charging its sewage promotes algae growth that is choking Midwestern rivers and contributes to the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone." The federal lawsuit demands Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District deal with frequent runoff of untreated sewage into local …
A tornado tore through New Zealand's largest city Auckland Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 14 as cars and trees were sent flying through the air and roofs ripped off buildings. The tornado struck the northern suburb of Albany in the mid-afternoon, with damage centered on a shopping mall, before …
Nearly a week after the devastating outbreak of tornadoes, it is still not clear what the wind wrought. While the names of the dead have started to come out, adding a specificity to the grim count, the death toll continues to fluctuate by the day. According to the Alabama Emergency …
The deadly tornadoes that tore across the South last week highlighted the cruel and ruthless side of wind, an energy source championed as an earth-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. Wind industry experts say their business was largely unaffected by the worst U.S. tornado disaster since 1925, because the twisters carved …
Tornadoes were the worst in the U.S. since 1974 The death toll from a series of devastating tornadoes that struck the United States this week has climbed to at least 291 and is likely to rise further, according to officials. As the storms wreaked havoc across a number of States …
Dozens of tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system wiped out entire towns across a wide swath of the South, killing at least 259 people, and officials said Thursday they expect the death toll to rise. Alabama
Devastating storms swept through the South on Wednesday, killing at least 60 people and spawning a tornado that tore through downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala. The evening twister flattened homes and buildings and brought further damage and death to a region already battered by storms. Across Alabama, at least 50 people were …
Four persons, including two children, were killed during dust storm and lightning incidents in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday. Satyendra Singh (30), husband of a block development committee member, was killed after being stuck by lightning at Mahua Pamai village in the Khutar area of …
AJMER: The Union ministry of earth sciences predicts that Rajasthan will have huge sandstorms in the future as an effect of climate change. The state is now in the danger zone 3 of earthquake. The ministry has decided to build observatories in various parts of the country to calculate the …
18 people were killed and 155 injured in south China as hailstones, cloudburst and strong wind ravaged the region, the state media said on Monday. Winds as strong as 164 km per hour, accompanied by hail and lashing rain, battered Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhaoqing and Dongguan cities in Guangdong province on …
BHUBANESWAR: Three persons died and another was injured as a high-velocity hailstorm hit coastal Orissa today uprooting trees and utility poles and flattening houses. A 53-year-old woman, identified as Bilasini Nayak, was killed when an uprooted tree fell on her in Gop area of Puri district. An eight-year-old girl died …
Human beings may be partially to blame for the increasing intensity of rain and snowstorms, says a new climate study published on Thursday. This is the first time human-induced rise in greenhouse gases has been directly linked to intensity of extreme rain and snow. The study in Nature journal examined …
