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 …
RAINSTORMS have left 42 people dead and another 74 missing across north and central China since Wednesday morning, in addition to traffic chaos and the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Torrential rain in Hebei Province has left 30 people dead and 68 missing, the provincial civil affairs department …
THERE has been at least one confirmed fatality and 34 people remain missing, after heavy rain hit north China's Hebei Province Tuesday. Hebei Provincial Meteorological Bureau on Wednesday morning issued a red alert for rainstorms, forecasting heavy rain to continue throughout the coming hours. Red is the most serious level …
Global warming will cost the world economy more than £1.5 trillion a year in lost productivity by 2030 as it becomes too hot to work in many jobs, according to a major new report. In just 14 years' time in India, where some jobs are already shared by two people …
China's meteorological authority on Tuesday raised its storm alert to yellow for heavy rain across China in the coming two days. Storms will continue to hit the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and Hebei, as well as municipalities of Chongqing, Tianjin and Beijing from …
Novelist Amitav Ghosh examines the inability at the level of literature, history and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change in his new book, his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land" of 1992. "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable", published by …
The death toll from natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms and forest fires dropped sharply worldwide in the first six months of 2016 but the bill has risen, the world's largest reinsurance company Munich Re said on Tuesday. The economic cost of such events rose about a fifth to $70 …
Nine people were killed and 18 are missing after wind and driving rain bought by the remains of super typhoon Nepartak swept into China over the weekend, the government said on Monday. The deaths were all in the southeastern province of Fujian, where the typhoon made landfall, the civil affairs …
AT least six people were dead and eight others missing after Typhoon Nepartak battered China’s east coast with heavy rain and strong winds that toppled homes and triggered landslides, officials in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces said yesterday. Fujian’s water resources department said more than 438,000 people had been relocated. Five …
Super typhoon Nepartak hit eastern Taiwan early on Friday, driving thousands of people from their homes, disrupting power supply and forcing the cancellation of more than 500 flights, emergency authorities said. Television broadcast images of strong wind and torrential rains brought by the year's first typhoon, whose approach had prompted …
A cyclogenesis index (CSGP) is introduced and its variations have been evaluated for the period 1979 to 2008. It is found that CSGP is able to distinguish different categories of storms over North Indian Ocean. The relative roles of contributing parameters are analyzed to study the influence of CGSP with …
The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) has warmed and grown substantially during the past century. The IPWP is Earth’s largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall, and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle. The region has also experienced the world’s highest rates of …
China's meteorological authority on Thursday evening issued an orange alert, the second highest of the four-tier warning system, for storms across southern and eastern regions. It is the first time that the National Meteorological Center has issued an orange alert for rainstorms this year. In June, storms in the south …
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 122 people died of lightning in Telangana and AP in 2014. Hyderabad: A total of 47 people have died in lightning strikes in the two Telugu states from May 16 last year. Of them, 23 died in a single day in AP last …
GUIYANG, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Two people are dead and another is missing after a rainstorm pounded a county in southwest China's Guizhou Province from Monday evening to Tuesday morning. The county seat of Zhijin was inundated by rain-triggered floods. Power supply, traffic and communication in the county have been …
NANJING -- The death toll has climbed to 99 after a fierce tornado and storm hit East China's Jiangsu Province, leaving 846 others injured, local authorities said Sunday. A powerful tornado and hailstorm pummelled the farmland and factories in Yancheng City, Jiangsu on Thursday, toppling houses, damaging wire poles and …
BEIJING — An unusually fierce tornado ravaged an eastern Chinese city on Thursday, killing at least 98 people and injuring 800 others, catapulting cars, ginkgo trees and cellphone towers through the air, and reducing homes to piles of debris, the authorities said. The storm in Yancheng, a city of 7.1 …
Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms tore across northern Illinois on Thursday as part of a weather system forecast to threaten a swath from the Mississippi River to Ohio. Authorities have received five reports of tornadoes in the area west of Chicago, though it was unknown if the reported twisters were individual …
Fifty-seven people were killed and 24 injured after being struck by lightning in Bihar on Wednesday. The overnight storm also killed dozens of animals in 17 of the 38 districts of the state that received the season’s first rainfall. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today chaired a meeting of IMD and …
Lightning is one of the major threats to multimegawatt wind turbines and a concern for modern aircraft due to the use of lightweight composite materials. Both wind turbines and aircraft can initiate lightning, and very favorable conditions for lightning initiation occur in winter thunderstorms. Moreover, winter thunderstorms are characterized by …
CHONGQING - At least 12 people died after heavy storms across China over the weekend, local authorities said Monday. In southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, five people died after heavy rain since Saturday resulted in rivers bursting their banks and flash floods. The flood control and drought relief headquarters in Chongqing …
