Explainers, incident deep-dives, preparedness guides and data-driven reviews — written alongside the live tracker, so every claim links to the record behind it.
Every winter a brown haze settles over Lahore, Delhi and the Indo-Gangetic plain. It is a weather problem as much as a pollution one — and the dawn walk that feels fresh is often the worst air of the day.
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Some sources say about fifty earthquakes a day, others say tens of thousands, and both are right. The difference is how small an earthquake you count and who is counting — plus what magnitude actually measures, and why "shiddat" in a headline means magnitude.
Read report →24843 incidents recorded worldwide this week across 163 countries, including 1653 rated severe or extreme. Full breakdown by type, country and notable events.
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When a tanker overturns or a plant starts leaking gas, people run with the wind or go to look — and both put them inside the cloud. When to shelter in place, which way to move if you are outside, and why a fading smell is not good news.
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After a flood, snakes move to the same dry ground as people. Antivenom in a hospital is the treatment that works, and most deaths come from the time lost to remedies that do harm — cutting, sucking, tight tourniquets and waiting.
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Every rainy season the same scene repeats: someone collapses in a flooded street near a pole, and a second person dies pulling them out. Lightning victims are safe to touch. Someone still touching a live supply is not — and that difference decides who survives.
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After days of high fever, the temperature finally falls and the family relaxes. In dengue that is the moment doctors worry most: the dangerous phase starts as the fever breaks, and the signs that matter are easy to miss.
Read report →27008 incidents recorded worldwide this week across 149 countries, including 1297 rated severe or extreme. Full breakdown by type, country and notable events.
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People can outrun a fire in its first minutes. What they cannot do is get through a padlocked gate — which is why these events are large.
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Almost every ferry disaster reads the same way afterwards: overloaded, no reachable life jackets, over in under a minute — and many of the dead could swim.
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Every winter whole families are found dead at home with no fire and no smoke. Carbon monoxide is the one household hazard that gives no warning at all — the only one you have to install yourself.
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Lightning kills more people each year than most disasters that make international news, and almost none of it is reported. The confidence people have about it is built on things that are not true.
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