Preliminary results of a catastrophe modelling study presented at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction show little...
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The president of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu appealed to a U.N. disaster conference Saturday for help as a...
The global economic losses from natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones and have continued rising to reach an...
If the world doesn’t cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral “out of...
The head of the U.N. weather agency blamed extreme weather on human-induced climate change Monday, citing key events that wreaked...
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for...
The World Health Organization says only 7 percent of the world’s population lives in nations where there are adequate road...
A U.N. agency that sets global aviation safety standards is moving to prevent aircraft batteries like the one that caught...
A human rights group said Tuesday it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more...