When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...
Roorkee: Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday virtually attended a one-day workshop on disaster risk resilience and ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part because it ...
World Heritage properties and heritage sites in general are exposed to the impacts of natural and man-triggered catastrophic events, which threaten their integrity and may compromise their value. The ...
ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...
From Himalayan cloudbursts and Punjab floods to cyclones on both coasts and relentless heatwaves, 2025 exposed India’s ...
In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...
The National Emergency Management Agency, Nigerians Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), and other stakeholders have called for the implementation of national ...
Washington D.C., April 17, 2024 - The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or IBRD, AAA/Aaa), issued three catastrophe (cat) bonds that finance $420 million of insurance ...