2016

New data has revealed that 1.4 billion people in South Asia, 81% of the region's population, are acutely exposed to at least one type of natural hazard and live in areas considered to have insufficient resources to cope with and rebound from an extreme event.

In 1949, when Popular Mechanics predicted that computers of the future might have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh a mere 1.5 tons, no one could have imagined the awesome power of today's computing technology.

As this year's hurricane season approaches, many are wondering if the 10-year drought of major hurricane landfalls experienced by the U.S. will come to an end.

Hailstorms can be highly localized and last for just minutes, but as farmers are well aware, they can do a lot of damage in a short time.

The existing gap between global economic losses from natural hazards and those covered by the insurance industry is well documented, and the so-called "protection gap" for property risks has been a hot topic of discussion in the industry throughout the last 12–18 months.

As organizations increasingly look to the cloud to handle everything from collaboration to storage to their most critical and computationally intensive tasks, there are a number of factors to consider when selecting a cloud provider.

For organizations and governments alike, the ultimate question regarding catastrophe risk management is how to better prepare for and mitigate the financial impacts of an event.

The details of what happened after the two bombings in Brussels on Tuesday morning are now well known, and the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Liquefaction caused unprecedented losses in and around Christchurch, New Zealand, during major earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

It is well known that there is no real typhoon season in the Pacific north of the equator and west of the Date Line—the Northwest Pacific basin. Unlike the North Atlantic, which has official start and end dates of June 1 and November 30, the Northwest Pacific basin is open for business all year round.