Prolonged wind events that unleash heavy rainfall and travel far distances sometimes qualify as derechos. Derechos can happen almost anywhere...
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Natural disasters across the globe cost insurers US$80 billion during the first half of 2025, up from $64 billion in...
Hong Kong issued its highest rainstorm warning, effectively closing down the city, just over a week after a typhoon downed...
Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures and strong winds across the eastern Mediterranean left a dozen people dead in Turkey and...
Severe storms are triggering flooding in parts of Europe following weeks of extreme heat, while temperatures on the Italian island...
How hot can a heat wave really get? Before June 2021, scientists thought they knew. That’s when one of the...
Collaboration between the public and private sectors, beyond just insurance, is essential to narrowing the so-called protection gap, as losses...
British farmers are facing increased fire risks to both their fields and harvesting machines, following a long spell of hot,...
Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m....
Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, flooding and wildfires could wipe as much off euro zone GDP in the next...