China recorded 199.36 billion yuan ($29.9 billion) in direct losses from natural disasters in the first nine months of 2026,...
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Global insured losses from natural catastrophes reached US$92 billion during the first nine months of 2026, 29% below the 10-year...
Bangkok received nearly a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend, flooding roads and homes across the Thai capital,...
A strengthening El Niño is stirring up a dangerous mix of typhoons and hurricanes across the Pacific, fueling storms that...
The European Union will set up a “climate insurance alliance” to better cover losses as global warming increases the frequency...
The insurance industry should be prepared to withstand $171 billion in insured catastrophe losses, on average in a given year,...
Severe droughts across Europe this summer led to huge wildfires, disrupted transport on critical routes, threatened power plants and hit...
Scientists are pointing to a glacier collapse and rock landslide as the cause of a devastating flash flood that killed...
In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with...
At five o’clock on the morning of August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew came ashore near Homestead, Florida, as a Category...