Natural disasters, unstable weather and global warming may have a ?significant? impact on economies, causing increased volatility and political misjudgment, according to a report today from U.K. investment manager Standard Life Investments Ltd.
China will better deploy rainmaking technology and there will be more of it, a leading meteorologist promised. The country plans to increase artificial precipitation by 3 to 5 percentage points in the next five years, Zheng Guoguang, administrator of the China Meteorological Administration, said.
MANILA, Philippines - The economic costs of over 400 natural and man-made disasters in 2011 reached over P26 billion, a report of the Citizen's Disaster Response Center showed. This cost is equivalent to almost 3% of the total tax collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and almost 1.5% ...
