In the first half of 2025, natural disasters inflicted significant losses in China, impacting over 23 million people and ...

Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct economic losses of 54.11 billion yuan ($7.55 billion) ...

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters in China led to 54.11 billion yuan in economic losses, 307 casualties or missing ...

Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of ...

More than 9,200 military personnel and 14,000 militia members have been mobilized to help with flood rescue in Rongjiang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, a defense spokesman said on Tuesday ...

Danas is forecast to bring between 100mm and 250mm of rainfall across a 650km stretch from Fuzhou in Fujian province to ...

China on high alert for floods as record rain triggers landslides and building collapse - Meteorological centre forecasts more storms across north and west even as east coast bakes under a scorching s ...

Global insured losses from natural disaster events in Q1 2025 were preliminarily estimated to reach at least $53 bn, the highest Q1 insured losses since Q1 2011 ($81 bn), and marking the ...

Aon released its Q1 Global Catastrophe Recap for April 2025, providing analysis of natural disaster events worldwide during the first quarter. Economic losses reached at least $83bn (Q1 2024: $54bn), ...

Moving forward, China’s continued commitment to global resilience will be instrumental in mitigating the impact of future disasters and ensuring a safer, more prepared world for all.

The two bodies indicated in a joint statement that the direct economic losses caused by natural disasters in 2024 amounted to CNY 401.11 billion (about USD 55.8 billion).

Relief and recovery efforts are underway in Tibet after 126 people died and 46,000 were displaced in Tuesday's powerful earthquake.