BEIJING - China has moved forward with plans to build the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in ...

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 ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and ...

Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of ...

More than 9,200 military personnel and 14,000 militia members have been mobilized to help with flood rescue in Rongjiang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, a defense spokesman said on Tuesday ...

China's north and west braced for more flash floods and landslides on Thursday as annual 'Plum Rains' left a trail of destruction and prompted the mobilisation of thousands of rescue workers to pull ...

Global insured losses from natural disaster events in Q1 2025 were preliminarily estimated to reach at least $53 bn, the highest Q1 insured losses since Q1 2011 ($81 bn), and marking the ...

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), ...

Moving forward, China’s continued commitment to global resilience will be instrumental in mitigating the impact of future disasters and ensuring a safer, more prepared world for all.

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).