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China's direct economic losses from natural disasters amounted to 88.81 billion yuan (about $13.13 billion) in the first half of 2022, the Ministry of Emergency Management said Thursday.
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 ...
Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of ...
Aon released its Q1 Global Catastrophe Recap for April 2025, providing analysis of natural disaster events worldwide during the first quarter. Economic losses reached at least $83bn (Q1 2024: $54bn), ...
The two bodies indicated in a joint statement that the direct economic losses caused by natural disasters in 2024 amounted to CNY 401.11 billion (about USD 55.8 billion).
Relief and recovery efforts are underway in Tibet after 126 people died and 46,000 were displaced in Tuesday's powerful earthquake.
In a year set to be declared the hottest on record, natural disasters caused $310 billion in economic losses globally in 2024, as climate change increasingly takes its toll, Swiss Re said Thursday.