Insurance companies are selling catastrophe bonds at a record pace in 2025, passing on more climate risk to investors. These ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- China has earmarked 150 million yuan (about $20.97 million) from its central natural-disaster-relief fund to ...

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 ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

HONG KONG -- Chinese state enterprises have come to the rescue of a troubled rural commercial bank in the nation's northeastern Jilin province, after it warned of losses to the tune of 1.7 billion ...

China's north and west braced for more flash floods and landslides on Thursday as annual 'Plum Rains' left a trail of destruction and prompted the mobilisation of thousands of rescue workers to pull ...