The World Is Woefully Unprepared for Climate-Driven Natural Disasters Disaster preparedness is hard, expensive, time-consuming, and often thankless work.

Natural disasters have caused a global economic loss of $313 billion in 2022. Florida's Hurricane Ian was the second most expensive disaster the insurance sector has ever faced.

Floods, earthquakes, and deadly wildfires raged around the world in 2023. Here is a retrospective look at some of the deadliest disasters in the U.S. and across the world.

Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately.

Earth might seem like a more active and dangerous place than ever, given the constant media reports of multiple natural disasters recently. But a broader view reveals that it's not Mother Nature ...

Natural disasters killed thousands of people around the world in 2018, and some wildfires and hurricanes set records in the wake of their destruction.

Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately.