Australia floods force thousands to evacuate for the second time in a month

Mudslides and floods kill at least 117, displaces hundreds in Brazil's historic city

The ten most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170 billion (150 billion euros) in damage, $20 billion more than in 2020, a British aid group said Monday.

Weather disasters cost $20 bn more than last year: NGO

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged efforts to prevent natural disasters or coronavirus outbreaks from damaging the economy as he convened a meeting of the ruling party's politburo, state media reported on Friday.

North Korea's Kim calls for preventing natural disasters and COVID-19 outbreaks

Scientists fear that Alaska could soon be hit by a mega-tsunami owing to a landslide which was triggered by melting of glaciers in the region. Even though the bigger projected timeline of the disaster to strike is within the next two decades, scientists warned that the catastrophe could strike within the next 12 months.

Scientists warn of a mega-tsunami along Alaskan coast as early as 12 months

On Tuesday, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday put out a report on natural disasters, highlighting how the number of disasters have increased over the last half century.

China contributes 25% to global emissions, says UN

Extreme weather changes triggered by climate change continue to get intenser over time. According to the United Nations, this acceleration has fastened in the last 20 years.

20 years witnessed rise in natural disasters, especially in Asia: United Nations

Torrential rain is set to hit China's eastern coastal regions this week after overwhelming large parts of the southwest, inundating villages and tourist spots and displacing more than 700,000 people, state weather forecasters said on Monday.

More Chinese regions brace for floods as storms shift east

The COVID-19 pandemic is a complex worldwide emergency without contemporary precedent. In every nation around the globe, the pandemic reaction is taking up the bulk of resources, expertise, time and effort.

Double crisis: Natural disasters don't stop for coronavirus

The pandemic is just one challenge. Emergency workers have to fight nature's vagaries too. Floods, forest fires, dust clouds... the list goes on. WION's Executive Editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you more about this new crisis.

Gravitas: Natural disasters don't stop for a virus

Over 50,000 homes in Western Australia have no electricity owing to the wild weather battering the country for a second day in a row. Winds with speed of upto 100 km/h have ravaged the state’s coastline over the weekend.

'Rare event': Bizarre weather leaves 50,000 Australian homes without electricity

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito said Thursday he hoped for a year without natural disasters, delivering his first New Year speech since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne to tens of thousands of well-wishers.

Hope this year will be peaceful without natural disasters: Japan emperor Naruhito

Thirteen people have been killed and eight people are missing and presumed dead after volcanic eruption covered a small New Zealand island popular with tourists in hot ash and steam.

New Zealand volcano eruption: Thirteen dead and eight missing

Most destructive volcanic flare-ups in the last 25 years

At least five people were killed, up to 20 injured and several were reported missing after a volcano suddenly erupted off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island on Monday, spewing a plume of ash thousands of feet into the air.

New Zealand: Volcano eruption kills five, several missing

Floods in southeast Niger have forced 23,000 people to flee their homes since early October, officials said Saturday, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region already wracked by Boko Haram Islamist violence.

Niger floods force 23,000 from their homes

North Korea recorded its worst harvest for more than a decade last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, as natural disasters combined with its lack of arable land and inefficient agriculture to hit production.

North Korea food production 'lowest for a decade': UN

The floods have affected as many as 1,795 villages in 24 districts in Assam

Assam floods: Death toll climbs to 59, over 1 million affected

Police warned the death toll would likely rise as emergency workers reached remote parts of the Chittagong Hills

Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 156 in Bangladesh & India

Desperate families queued for blocks in the heat to search a morgue for loved ones

Colombia starts to bury 273 landslide victims, even as search continues

China aims to use weather modification technologies to create more than 60 billion cubic metres of additional rain a year by 2020

China sets aside $30 million for weather modification programme

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