Nations hit by natural disasters tell ministers at climate talks to act

Battered by last month's ferocious climate-fueled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished ...
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Victims of recent natural disasters blindsided by nightmare scenario: 'It's so important that people understand the risk'

In the last year, extreme floods, fires, and storms wreaked havoc around the world. For the victims of these disasters, a whole other nightmare awaits them once the flames are contained and ...
The New York Times

Around the World, Flash Flood Disasters Are the ‘Hardest Kind to Prevent’

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk. By Max Bearak and Hiroko Tabuchi Officials in Texas ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

How Americans think the government should respond to natural disasters, according to recent polls

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause, according to polling conducted earlier this year ...
PBS

Sudan landslide kills more than 1,000 people after wiping out entire village in Darfur

CAIRO (AP) — A landslide wiped out an entire village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent ...