In the U.S., there were nine billion-dollar weather disasters in 2014, according to Aon Benfield. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center gave a lower number of U.S. billion-dollar weather disasters in ...

Uneasy about discussing natural disasters—and who's to blame for their death and destruction—with your students? Here are some resources to start the conversation. Americans believe that today’s ...

BARCELONA, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year, 94 countries were affected by 315 natural disasters - the lowest annual figure for the decade from 2005 to 2014, data in a report from the ...

Sonali Deraniyagala is an economist and memoirist. She is a member of the faculty of the Department of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is a research ...