Rising heat scorches recovery efforts in cyclone-hit Indian state
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation From the safety of a relative’s house, Mohammed Tazmul Hussein watched coconut trees crashing onto the roof of his home as Cyclone Fani barrelled into eastern India. Two weeks after the cyclone struck Odisha state on India’s east coast, travelling at 200kph and forcing the evacuation of more than one million […]
Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns UN
Geneva, SwitzerlandThomson Reuters Foundation Increasingly complex, growing and related risks, from global warming to pollution and epidemics, threaten human survival if left to escalate, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. A biennial assessment report on how the world is dealing with disasters said the past could no longer be relied on as a guide to […]
Rising disaster risk but little insurance interest in Pacific islands
Thomson Reuters Foundation Pacific island nations are some of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, yet only a handful have signed up to an insurance scheme that dispenses rapid payouts in a crisis – a situation experts hope to change. The United Nations says only about eight per cent of disaster losses are covered in the […]