Tag: natural disasters

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - Natural disaster losses worldwide dropped sharply to $224 billion in 2025, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, ...

Zurich (AFP) - Global economic losses from natural disasters are projected to have dropped by 33 percent to $220 billion ...

Kolkata (AFP) - Torrential rains that triggered deadly landslides and floods in India's Darjeeling region also destroyed swathes of premier ...

Zurich (AFP) - Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by ...

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year ...

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year ...

Washington (AFP) - Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and ...

Geneva (AFP) - Swiss insurers on Tuesday put the damage caused by last month's glacier collapse, which largely destroyed the ...

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's economy is set to shrink 2. 5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a ...

Zurich (AFP) - The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely ...