From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires - Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by ...

When examining climate disasters, it’s important to distinguish them from weather events unrelated to climate change and from ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods that inspired ancient myths, nature has always had the power to rewrite ...

Many deaths and full extent of damage in poorer countries go missing from global because they are not insured, report finds ...

While the United States witnessed the most expensive climate disaster of this year, Asia accounted for four of the six costliest extreme weather events of 2025, according to a new report ...

Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and storms cost the global economy more than USD 120 billion in 2025, underscoring the rising financial and human toll of climate change, according to a new report by UK ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

Flowing into thousands of villages, the muddy flood waters fully submerged and desecrated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. Bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Only skeletons remained ...

Washington D.C., September 25, 2025 – The World Bank’s Executive Board approved today a project aimed at strengthening Guatemala’s resilience to natural hazards and extreme climate events. This ...

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2025 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO ...