The 2024 World Risk Report is out, highlighting which countries are most at risk from natural disasters, and what can be done to prevent catastrophes and mitigate the effects.

NEW YORK – Earthquakes, floods, storms – the world is not adequately prepared to face increasing disasters, said a report published on Tuesday calling for a rethink of global risk management ...

The world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics, the Red Cross warned in a report. "Our world is becoming increasingly hazardous," the report said. The Red Cross' secretary general said ...

World Disasters Report 2010 Focus on urban risk by Irish Red Cross | Medair - Switzerland Tuesday, 21 September 2010 21:25 GMT ...

In its World Disasters Report 2022, the IFRC said "all countries remain dangerously unprepared for future outbreaks" despite COVID-19 killing more people than any earthquake, drought or hurricane ...

World Bank Report: Yearly Toll Of Disasters Is Likely $500 Billion, Not $300 Billion : Goats and Soda When damage from floods and earthquakes is tallied, ...

The IFRC report, titled “World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water,” uses what’s known as “extreme event attribution” to show that over the past 10 years, climate- and weather ...

In the 1970s, the world averaged about 711 weather disasters a year, but from 2000 to 2009 that was up to 3,536 a year or nearly 10 a day, according to the report, which used data from the Center ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --Natural disasters cost nations $250 billion in 2023 as climate change churned up dangerous and deadly weather across the globe, according to a study released Tuesday.The new study ...

The 2024 World Risk Report is out, highlighting which countries are most at risk from natural disasters, and what can be done to prevent catastrophes and mitigate the effects.