LONDON, May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population growth and surging…
NEW YORK, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first scientific confirmation of…
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, April 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Retired Cameroonian footballer Roger Milla is already famous for being the oldest goal scorer – at age 42 – in World Cup…
LONDON, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of Burundians are in need of humanitarian aid to help them cope with the consequences of civil unrest, flooding brought…
KONSO, Ethiopia, March 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It is the seventh consecutive year that Deneke Degaga, a father of eight, is facing a crop failure. Degaga, 38, lives in…
By Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management I am proud to celebrate the first anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction which was adopted…
BANGKOK, March 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After months of food and water shortages caused by drought and frost, Papua New Guinea is suffering floods and mudslides affecting 2,000 people…
BANGKOK, Jan 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of severely malnourished children has spiked in northern Rakhine state in Myanmar, a European Union agency said, after floods six months…
When the Viceroy of Peru, Jose Antonio Mansa de Velasco, was given orders to rebuild Lima after an earthquake in October 1746, he hired the French mathematician, Louis Godin, to…
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Free education but nowhere to sleep!” reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam’s Jangwani slum, summing up the…
BARCELONA, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments around the world are underestimating the costs of disasters, particularly smaller ones triggered by weather and climate extremes, which is undermining the…
HARIPUR, Pakistan, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Robina Gul has swapped her needle for a trowel. Until recently, the villager from northern Pakistan got by making clothes for family…
DHAKA, Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh’s plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to ease water shortages in its southwest coastal region hangs in the balance…
BARCELONA, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world’s preparations to deal with disasters are not yet keeping pace with the growing threats to people and societies, said the former…
BAGROT VALLEY, Pakistan, Dec 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nestled at the foot of five snow-capped mountain peaks in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan province, the villages of the Bagrot valley face…
POLONNARUWA, Sri Lanka, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rice farmer Weerasinghearchchilage Darmarathana is used to periodic flooding in his low-lying village of Galella in central Sri Lanka. The 60-year-old…
