The statement comes at a critical moment, coinciding with the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (13 October), ...

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction calls on governments and institutions to “Fund Resilience, Not ...

WMO has welcomed a declaration by the Group of 20 (G20) ministers which gives strong recognition to the need for multi-hazard ...

With a hike in storms, as unpredictable weather conditions were upon us, experts investigated the range of lightning strikes. Analyzing a series of lightning records, the World Meteorological ...

Floods, droughts, hotter weather and a desert locust invasion — the impacts of climate change are hitting Africa hard, and worse is ahead for the region’s food supplies, economy and health, the U.N.

Established under India's G20 Presidency in 2023, the G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRR WG) aims to integrate ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash, across the U.S. Great Plains during an October 2017 thunderstorm.

Extreme weather events have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, taking a heavy human and economic toll worldwide, and are likely to wreak further havoc, the United Nations said on Monday.

Many localized extreme weather events develop suddenly, intensify rapidly, and remain difficult to predict using conventional ...

Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of ...

The Ministry of Defense has raised concerns over private vloggers, YouTubers, and social media pages issuing unauthorized ...