Hurricane Harvey 2017, flooding in Spring Texas, a couple miles north of Houston. Speed limit sign almost completely submerged.

Does it seem like the number of natural disasters per year is growing? What about forest fires? If you said yes to both, you would be correct. According to the UN's disaster monitoring system, natural disasters have more than quadrupled to over 400 per year since 1970.

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