Climate-related and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance, UN experts recently reported. The findings, published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), also show that people in low-… Continue reading UN Report Shows Climate Change Causing ‘Dramatic Rise’ in Economic Losses