The Rise in Unnatural Disasters

The Rise in Unnatural Disasters: Flooding

Recent record-breaking floods are one prime example of how our lives have been upended by climate change.

The Rise in Unnatural Disasters: Wildfires | The Climate Reality Project

Infestations. Warm and dry conditions, particularly in months that were once cooler, allow some very destructive insects like the mountain pine ...

'Unnatural Disasters' Report Shows the Climate Crisis's Widespread ...

The National Wildlife Federation's “Unnatural Disasters” report highlights how climate change is fueling hurricanes, floods, wildfires, ...

Unnatural Disasters - ArcGIS StoryMaps

Warmer temperatures due to climate change are intensifying nearly every type of natural disaster, posing new threats across the country. From sweltering heat ...

Is climate change increasing the risk of disasters?

In fact, floods impact more people worldwide than any other disaster, and the economic, social, and environmental impacts are getting worse. By ...

A guide to reporting on unnatural disasters - Potential Energy Coalition

As climate change progresses and intensifies extreme weather, millions of Americans across the country are put at risk of more severe storms, more intense ...

Harbingers of decades of unnatural disasters - Nature

However, our compilation of severe weather-related hazards and the most severe related disasters in those two years reveals that ultimately, all ...

Unnatural disasters: A look at our “new normal” and the cost of inaction

While natural variations continue to play a role in extreme weather events, human-induced climate change increases the likelihood that these ...

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

The US has sustained 400 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024).

Are major natural disasters increasing? - USAFacts

Nine out of the 10 years with the highest number of natural disasters occurred in the last decade.

2023: A historic year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate ...

The number and cost of weather and climate disasters is rising due to a combination of population growth and development along with the ...

Unnatural Disasters: Resource Hub - Join us in spreading the word

Fossil fuel pollution intensifies devastating weather events. These weather events are not natural. They are unnatural disasters. They're hurting the people and ...

2022 U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in historical ...

The number and cost of weather and climate disasters is rising due to a combination of population growth and development along with the ...

Climate change ad campaign uses the term 'unnatural disasters'

Ad running in Wisconsin gives new name to weather events worsened by climate change: 'unnatural disasters' ... An ad running in Wisconsin and ...

Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters | Department of Economic and ...

Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission ...

Climate Change and Unnatural Disasters - Food & Water Watch

“Global warming and hurricanes: The potential impact of hurricane intensification and sea level rise on coastal flooding.” Climactic Change. Vol. 104. 2011 at ...

Unnatural Disasters - Columbia University Press

Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like ...

Natural hazards, unnatural disasters: the economics of effective ...

It looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens and shows that growing cities will increase exposure to hazards, but that vulnerability ...

Unnatural Disasters - PreventionWeb.net

The migration of people to cities and coasts also increases our vulnerability to the full array of natural hazards. The explosive growth of shantytowns in the ...

Increase in Natural Disasters on a Global Scale by Ten Times

Increase in Natural Disasters on a Global Scale by Ten Times. A look at data over the last century shows a dramatic rise in the number of catastrophic natural ...