disasters
Example Sentences
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While the exact cause of the glacial collapse is unclear, climate change is accelerating glacial melt worldwide, increasing the risk of such disasters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
She said fossil fuel companies need to help mitigate the disasters and pay for the harm to communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Prime Minister Balendra Shah said Nepal must "strongly raise" with the international community the disasters it has experienced as a result of climate change.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
El Niño is a natural phenomenon, but it tends to bring the kind of extreme heat which also drives those disasters, Dr Alistair Hobday, chief researcher at Australia's science agency, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Spanish flu of 1918 had raged through the continent, killing nearly 20 million men and women worldwide and ranking among the deadliest natural disasters in history.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
