Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just a few of the natural disasters that have contributed to more ...

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments set targets to substantially reduce deaths and economic losses from disasters at a U.N. conference in Japan on Wednesday, but critics were ...

I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...

The constant bad news about global warming and its effects on humans and other life on Earth bombards us daily — that is if we are paying attention and not oblivious or in denial. For example, Earth’s ...

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should that ...

It rises like a mountain, up and to the right, and it has become one of the most potent illustrations of the perils of man-made global warming. It’s a chart showing the number of billion-dollar ...

2025 has been well known for multiple natural disasters. The year started with wildfires in Los Angeles killing 29 people, resulting in billions in damages. As many of these disasters are coming to an ...

Natural disasters, many driven by climate change, caused global economic losses of $313 billion in 2022, insurance broker Aon estimated on Wednesday, of which less than half was insured. Losses from ...

A group of international scientists who maintain the "Doomsday Clock" have pushed the metaphorical measure of humanity's impending doom to its nearest point yet to imminent collapse, according to the ...