Climate
In this COP-30 interview, participants of the ALLATRA International Public Movement speak with Fatima Fataliyeva, the manager of the Azerbaijan Pavilion at COP-30. She discusses the pavilion's mission, its concept as the “Hall of Legacy,” and how Azerbaijan showcases it...
Maria Adriana Cordeiro de Melo is a representative of the Xukuru do Ororubá people from northeastern Brazil, in the Caatinga biome. She serves as an Indigenous diplomat within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. In her remarks at COP-30, Maria Adriana spoke about the de...
The planet has stopped warning us with bad weather. Now it is shouting in the language of disasters. A volcano that had been dormant for at least 12,000 years has awakened in Ethiopia. In Indonesia, scorching ash reached the stratosphere. And in the Thai city of Hat Yai...
On November 23, Ethiopia experienced a sudden and powerful eruption of the Haili-Gubbi volcano.
Welcome to Disasters Expo USA 2025 - Day One Highlights
In this powerful discussion recorded live at Disasters Expo Texas 2025, we speak with Captain Rob Borse, Strategic Advisor to the Fire Chief and Executive Liaison to the City Manager of Dallas, about the critical importance of personal preparedness, multi-agency coordin...
In this COP-30 interview, participants of the ALLATRA International Public Movement speak with Dr. Tijjani El‑badawy, a distinguished disaster risk geoscientist from Nigeria, whose work bridges scientific insight, policy-making, and practical disaster management. Dr. El...
At COP-30, the international public movement ALLATRA met with the renowned Schurmann Family from Brazil — legends of global sea exploration and ocean protection. For more than 40 years, they have been studying the world from the water, completing four round-the-world ex...
Unprecedented floods have unfolded in South-Central Vietnam: the amount of rainfall has exceeded all historical norms. In less than 24 hours, major rivers broke decades-old records: the Dinh River surpassed the mark from 1986, the Kilo River exceeded the peak of 2009, a...
The province of East Java in Indonesia was struck by a powerful eruption of Mount Semeru. Since mid-November, it had shown increasing activity. For several days, ash clouds rose above the summit, but on November 19 at 2:13 p.m. local time, the first powerful pyroclastic...
In this COP-30 interview, participants of the ALLATRA International Public Movement speak with renowned Brazilian public figure and journalist Fernando Gabeira, a man whose life reflects courage, integrity, and a deep commitment to environmental issues. His personal jou...
From 12 to 18 November 2025, the planet experienced unprecedented weather chaos: Storm “Claudia” unleashed tornadoes and floods across Europe, 16 people were buried by a landslide in Indonesia, and an extratropical cyclone brought winds of 352 km/h to Patagonia. These a...
The storm “Claudia” developed from a broad area of low pressure that had already brought early cold weather and snowfall to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States in early November. As the system moved over the Atlantic, it strengthened, and after slowing dow...
A destructive EF-4 tornado, as if straight out of a Hollywood movie, hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, becoming the most powerful tornado in Brazil’s recent history. Winds of up to 300 km/h reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble, leaving aro...
A rare and unusually early snowstorm struck southeastern Canada on November 9, 2025, covering the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
On November 7, several states in Brazil were hit by powerful storm winds accompanied by heavy rain and hail, caused by an extratropical cyclone. The states most affected by the disaster were Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.
Residents of the Philippines had barely recovered from a series of natural disasters when the fierce Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, struck the country. It hit the province of Cebu on November 4, bringing torrential rains, landslides, and catastrophic flooding.
Natural disasters struck six continents in one week: Cyclone Monta affected 2 million people in India, an earthquake in Afghanistan destroyed the famous Blue Mosque, and Australia recorded 8 million lightning strikes (DTN data). Here’s a chronicle of the disasters and t...
On October 28, Tropical Cyclone “Monta”, with wind gusts reaching up to 68 miles per hour and torrential rainfall, struck the eastern coast of India.
Dr. Prince Taylor — U.S. Navy veteran, national expert on loneliness, and Deputy Director of the Center for Development and Civic Engagement at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — leads one of the largest federal volunteer programs in the United States, coordinati...