Doomsday Clock moves to 85 seconds to midnight as scientists warn of nuclear war, climate change and AI threats bringing ...

A group of physicists has raised alarms about a potential global catastrophe predicted for 2026, emphasizing the need for immediate global awareness and action. This warning, based on recent data ...

“Humanity has not made sufficient progress on the existential risks that endanger us all,” Atomic Bulletin of Scientists warn ...

If a global catastrophe suddenly led to a nuclear winter, millions of people could starve. But now, scientists have figured out what crops we would need to grow to sustain a city if such a calamitous ...

The Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight as ever as scientists warn the world is "perilously close to global disaster." ...

Optimal post-apocalyptic crops for urban gardens and rooftops and nearby land include peas and potatoes—except in a nuclear winter A new study suggests that, in the case of global catastrophe, urban ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Annual global insured losses from natural ‌catastrophes are expected to hit $107 billion ‌in 2025, driven by the Los Angeles wildfires and severe convective storms in parts of the ...

(Reuters) -Global insured losses from natural catastrophes reached $80 billion in the first half of 2025, preliminary estimates from Swiss Re Institute showed on Wednesday, driven by wildfires in ...

Insurance broker Aon (NYSE:AON) said on Thursday that global economic losses from catastrophes touched record highs in the first quarter, driven by California wildfires and other events, including ...

Global insured losses from natural catastrophes reached $80 billion in the first half of 2025, nearly double the ten-year average and the second-highest first-half total ever recorded, according to ...

In 2023 and 2024, a strong El Niño weather pattern layered atop a warming climate was a double whammy that produced the warmest two years on record. Alongside the heat were calamitous droughts that ...

Earth's nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study ...