Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I examine a new report from the UN’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, which warns that natural disasters are increasing in frequency and the world is ...

NAIROBI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - About one billion slum dwellers in developing countries are vulnerable to disasters because they live in congested and poorly built houses without emergency services, the ...

Investing in disaster-resilient infrastructure could halve economic losses from natural disasters by 2050, according to new modelling released on Monday at COP30 by the New Delhi-based Coalition for ...