Weather- and climate-related disasters have caused $2.4 trillion in economic losses and nearly 2 million deaths globally since 1971 according to a new report.

At least 18 people have been killed and millions of others impacted by a new round of rainstorms that have hit several provinces in southern and eastern China.

President Obama announced a series of climate change initiatives on Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and

The government has constructed a total of 100 cyclone centres in the country’s coastal districts in fiscal 2013-14, aiming to save the lives and property of coastal people from the extreme climate

Over 800 houses have been damaged due to strong winds, Disaster Management Centre Deputy Director (Media) Sarath Lal Kumara said yesterday.

Severe thunderstorms injured 10 people and caused significant structural damage along the Virginia Beach oceanfront Thursday, officials said.

OVER 1,000 cows of Fulani herdsmen in five local councils of Yobe State were last weekend killed, following a three-day rainstorm that destroyed houses.

At least one tornado touched down in an upstate New York town during a violent spate of weather that killed five people on the East Coast, officials said on Wednesday.

Over 244,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states remained without power on Wednesday after severe thunderstorms rolled through the region overnight.