Watch VideoWeather 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 disasters are killing far fewer people. In the 1970s and 1980s, they killed an average of about 170 people a day worldwide. In the...
UN: Weather Disasters Soar In Numbers, Cost, But Deaths Fall
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