20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately ... the most recent five years ...

Yet none of these make our list of the top six worst natural disasters, which has been drawn ... the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization recommended immunization for ...

In recent years, natural disasters have gone from being ... Floods are one of the most common and expensive natural disasters around the world. They can happen because of heavy rain, rivers ...

One reason behind the extraordinary heat is a particularly powerful bout of El Niño, a natural climate phenomenon ... according to a recent World Bank report, but fewer than 10% of the country ...

Crystal Cave is over a million years old and stretches about three miles, he says. Only a small fraction of caves in the ...

As the world watches in dismay at the devastation caused by the recent LA wildfires ... In 2023 alone, the U.S. experienced 28 weather disasters that caused over $ 1 billion in damages. These events ...

Natural disasters such as flooding, drought and extreme temperatures cost China 93.16 billion yuan ($12.83 billion) in the first half of this year, with almost 33 million people affected ...