Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

In February 2025, a waste pit at a copper mine operated by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia collapsed, releasing millions of gallons of highly acidic toxic sludge laced with heavy metals into nearby rivers ...

Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly ...

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 ...

Climate change isn’t only about the planet. It’s about people — and the rights we’re bound to protect as the world heats up.

Monika Graff / Getty Images Dr. Latoya Storr was an emergency medicine physician for a hospital in Grand Bahama when Hurricane Dorian ripped across the island in 2019. The hospital flooded four feet ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deaths, economic damage and other negative impacts from disasters have caused losses equivalent to 42 million life years annually since 1980, a measure that is ...

The Himachal Pradesh Human Development Report 2025, jointly prepared by the state and the UNDP, serves as the first ...

A state-level program was held on Tuesday in the multipurpose auditorium of the Gaiety Theatre on the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) Calling the repeated ...

When disasters strike - whether floods, earthquakes, forest fires, or cyclones - success in rescue and relief operations ...

In August 2025, Buner, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, experienced a devastating cloudburst - a rare meteorological phenomenon in which an immense volume of rain falls within a very short time.