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Expert reports urge climate and SDG synergies on policies for disaster insurance, nature solutions, healthy cities

26 July 2025 - Three reports were launched on 22 July 2025 by experts convened by the United Nations, showing how a greater impact can be achieved by breaking down silos and tackling the climate ...
Associated Press

Education network collaboration shows how natural disasters disrupt kids’ learning for years

Building on AP’s industry role in covering natural disasters and the Education team’s Pulitzer-finalist work on educational disruption, AP’s Alia Wong led an Education Reporting Network collaboration ...
Grist

Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born

When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan, leaving 2 million people without electricity and heat and damaging tens of ...
New York Post

Which natural disasters scare us the most — and can we ever truly feel prepared?

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...
The Hill

2024 one of worst years for natural disasters, researchers say, with FEMA’s future uncertain

Last year was one of the worst years for U.S. natural disasters, according to researchers, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) future remains uncertain. Major disaster declarations, ...