Insurance companies are selling catastrophe bonds at a record pace in 2025, passing on more climate risk to investors. These special bonds help insurers shift part of the financial burden from natural ...

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters inflicted significant losses in China, impacting over 23 million people and ...

Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct economic losses of 54.11 billion yuan ($7.55 billion) ...

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters in China led to 54.11 billion yuan in economic losses, 307 casualties or missing ...

Then, colliding with another soggy system sliding north off the Pacific, the storm wobbled and its clouds tipped, waterboarding south central Texas with an extraordinary 20 inches of rain. In the ...

BEIJING -- China has earmarked 150 million yuan (about $20.97 million) from its central natural-disaster-relief fund to ...

Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

China's north and west braced for more flash floods and landslides on Thursday as annual 'Plum Rains' left a trail of destruction and prompted the mobilisation of thousands of rescue workers to pull ...

Swathes of China are on high alert for flash floods and landslides as unrelenting rain triggered deadly disasters and forced evacuations in multiple provinces.