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Worldwide, natural disasters in 2023 resulted in losses of around US$ 250bn (previous year US$ 250bn), with insured losses of US$ 95bn (previous year US$ 125bn), according to the latest report by Munich Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions. Overall losses tally with the five-year average,Worldwide, natural disasters in 2023 resulted in losses of around US$ 250bn (previous year US$ 250bn), with insured losses of US$ 95bn...

Another turbulent year for human rights in Libya passed as the two rival authorities in the eastern and western parts of the country cracked down on nongovernmental groups, and armed groups and militias continued to commit abuses against Libyans and migrants with impunity, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024.

Worldwide, disasters in 2023 resulted in losses of around US$ 250bn (previous year US$ 250bn), with insured losses of US$ 95bn (previous year US$ 125bn).

Areas across the globe experienced heat, wildfires and floods in trends that are expected to continue.

In 2023 the Earth was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than in pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on industrial scale - Click the link for more.

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Sunday declared a force majeure with immediate effect at its Sharara oilfield, which can produce up to 300,000 barrels per day, due to protests in the area. Negotiations are ongoing to resume production as soon as possible, NOC said in a statement. The closure of the oilfield - one of Libya's largest - has suspended crude oil supplies from the field to the Zawiya terminal, it added.

Massive flooding devastated much of the northeastern Libyan city on September 10 and 11, 2023 leaving 4,540 people dead, according to the latest count.

It is a year since Hill International, the US’ largest independent project management company, was merged and delisted, and the results have been pretty much what the company expected when it accepted the deal: a strengthened balance sheet and functional autonomy.

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In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events.