GENEVA: Sea levels this year posted a record high, making low-lying coastal populations ever more vulnerable to extreme weather like super-storm Haiyan, the UN said Wednesday.

Following is a list of some of the assistance offered to the Philippines from around the world after a devastating typhoon hit the center of the country last weekend.

The death toll from the massive typhoon that hit the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500, not the previously reported figure of 10,000, President Benigno Aquino told CNN on Tuesday.

Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by weather disasters in 2012, a report issued at U.N.

The Warsaw climate meet may have had a dramatic start with a Philippines envoy announcing a fast until a meaningful outcome to negotiations, but there’s no sign of progress towards any agreement wi

Nations launched a new round of talks on Monday for a 2015 deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aftermath of a deadly Philippines typhoon the UN’s climate chief labelled “sober

The United States, Australia and the United Nations are mobilising emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerges.

The Philippines' tragedy that saw loss of over 10,000 lives by Typhoon Haiyan set the tone of United Nations' climate change talks, which began in Warsaw on Monday, amid hope that the devastation,

Haiyan the deadliest to hit Philippines; entire towns wiped out

The death toll from super typhoon Haiyan, which has decimated entire towns in the Philippines could soar well over 10,000, authorities warned on Sunday, making it the country’s worst recorded natural disaster. The horrifying estimates came as rescue workers appeared overwhelmed in their efforts to help countless survivors

The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the central Philippines on Friday, forcing millions of people to flee to safer ground, cutting