Browsing: Disasters
The article discusses the need for better preparedness for unexpected disasters, sparked by recent events like the Marshall Fire and the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption. The…
The article highlights a positive trend over recent years: the absence of global “mega-disasters” since 2010, unlike the devastating events of the 2000s, which collectively claimed…
Top climate scientists will meet at Chapman University from December 8-11 to address extreme natural hazards and improve warning systems to reduce fatalities and damage. Organized…
The United Nations reported that climate change has contributed to a near doubling of major natural disasters in the past two decades, with 7,348 events from…
A study by B.B. Cael from the University of Chicago analyzed nearly 2,000 climate hazard events since 1988 to examine how climate change, population dynamics, and…
The American Relief Act, 2025, allocates $2 billion for emergency relief payments to livestock producers affected by drought, wildfires, and flooding in 2023 and 2024. Producers…
In 2020, extreme weather and geophysical events displaced 30.7 million people, three times more than the 9.8 million displaced by war and conflict, despite escalating violence…
The article discusses the challenges and limitations of disaster databases, particularly the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT), which is widely used for tracking disaster events. It emphasizes…
I currently can’t access the specific article “Number of recorded natural disaster events, 1900 to 2023” from Our World in Data. However, if you provide key…
The article "Displacement, disasters and climate change" from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) examines the escalating issue of internal displacement driven by natural disasters and…