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Disaster Tech Lab, a global nonprofit providing communications and disaster response support, confirmed today that it is mobilizing a combined communications and medical response team to Cebu ...

Global insured catastrophe losses have now surpassed the $100 billion level in 2025, according to Steve Bowen, Chief Science ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally approached international creditors, including the World Bank , Asian Development Bank , ...

AI researchers Yudkowsky and Soares warn in their new book that the race to develop superintelligent AI could lead to human extinction.

Our planet is a place of beauty and wonder, but also of grave potential danger and chaos. Some dangers don’t […] ...

It echoed a 2005 explosion that killed 46 Zambian workers and fits a troubling pattern of Chinese mining accidents in Africa.

About 15 million deaths could be avoided each year and agricultural emissions could drop by 15% if people worldwide shift to ...

A group of physicists has raised alarms about a potential global catastrophe predicted for 2026, emphasizing the need for immediate global awareness and action. This warning, based on recent data ...

The first trailer teases the protagonist's new life in the bunkers of Greenland five years after the catastrophic incident.

Picture a city struck by a super typhoon—yet power remains uninterrupted, roads intact, schools standing, and floodwaters swiftly receding. This is the vision behind the Coalition for Disaster ...

A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s.