No one likes to think about natural disasters, but they do happen. Being prepared can help save lives, as well as saving homeowners and business owners...
CARE International are calling on governments to do everything in their power to help meet the targets of the Paris climate deal. The Paris Agreement is...
Flood policy needs a reboot says leading trade body as it publishes ‘Turning the Tide’, a new policy recommendations report for living safely and prosperously in...
A large proportion of UK adults (75%) think more needs to be done to tackle climate change, and have had their opinion changed by the events...
A leaked paper says flood defences are being abandoned or maintained to minimal levels because of government cuts and could leave almost twice as many households...
Yesterday Prime Minister David Cameron announced a package of more than £40m to rebuild and improve flood defences in the aftermath of Storm Eva. And he pledged...
The floods across the UK in December have been devastating. We’ve known this was going to happen for the last few decades. We have done nothing or,...
A “toxic triangle” of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests is preventing action to curb climate change, putting millions of people at risk...
The Union of Concerned Scientists has said that over the next 15 to 30 years, Mid-Atlantic communities and some of the most important cities on the...
The number of people forced to leave their home last year because of natural disasters is higher than those displaced by wars and conflicts – with...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Rockefeller Foundation have launched a $100 million (£60 million) fund to help the most critical regions of...
Maria Eagle, Labour’s shadow environment secretary, has said that the Tories are failing to invest adequately in flood defences. She says the government is cutting funding...
Typhoon Halong hit southwest Japan at around 9pm Greenwich Mean Time on Saturday. There are severe weather warnings in place for most of the country and...
More severe, multiple tornadoes are ravaging the US than in previous years, a study has found. New research by lead author Professor James Elsner, from Florida...
Severe flooding in Serbia and Bosnia has killed at least one person, just three months after record-breaking floods killed more than 50 people and displaced thousands....