A deadly force is brewing — and it’s not caused by the climate. A deadly force, intensifying as it goes, claiming lives and destabilizing nations. Hurricane Melissa’s assault on the Caribbean was ...

Investors in Jamaica’s catastrophe bond now face a full trigger event that would force payment of the entire $150 million bond to help the island deal with fallout from Hurricane Melissa. That’s ...

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...

Cranes are the backbone of modern construction, but sometimes they collapse with devastating results. This video explains why crane failures happen, using historical examples to reveal the dangers of ...

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it. By Scott Dance The Trump administration this year ...

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...

The seemingly unstoppable rise of catastrophe bonds may now be eroding the market share of reinsurers. After years of raising prices, reinsurers are finding that primary insurers have started relying ...

HONG KONG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Emergency Management said on Thursday that natural disasters in the first three quarters of 2025 affected crops with an area of 530,000 hectares and ...

The past week has been a difficult time for many Bhutanese, particularly for those living along the southern belt. Torrential rains have carved a trail of destruction, and as communities calculate the ...

When disasters strike—whether floods, wars, epidemics, or accidents—the damage often goes beyond what we can see. Beyond broken homes and disrupted livelihoods lie broken hearts, silent grief, and ...

In many communities at high risk for natural disasters, a Wall Street financing tool that's gaining popularity, called a catastrophe bond, may make it easier for homeowners to get insurance. On Oak ...