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Penn and Lee met 15 years ago in a Haitian displacement camp. Since then, the movie star and his CORE partner have built one of the most critical crisis relief organizations on the planet. Their ...

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The 2024 World Risk Report is out, highlighting which countries are most at risk from natural disasters, and what can be done to prevent catastrophes and mitigate the effects.

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The world has been witnessing more frequent and greater intensity weather-related disasters. Natural disasters hit every continent in the world. Asia has borne the brunt in terms of frequency and the ...

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GENEVA — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports. But these ...