The world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami, caused a chain ...

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The ...

Total losses from natural disasters across Asia-Pacific last year totaled $73 billion, yet just $9 billion was insured, ...

Johannesburg — In South Africa’s oldest township, volunteers in wetsuits jump into the thigh-deep water of the polluted Jukskei River to untangle a net that's designed to trap garbage but damaged by ...

Severe flooding in May 2023 caused structural damage to schools, leaving classrooms unsafe and disrupting learning for thousands of children. Photo: © Ministry in ...

As many as 35 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans — 4% of the species’ total population — may have been wiped out in the catastrophic floods and landslides that struck the Indonesian island of ...