Duration: 01:26

The victims of 'natural' disasters like hurricanes are usually the very poor.

Duration: 04:10

In 1953 a depression off the coast of the UK led to extensive flooding along the East coast of Britain.

Duration: 02:55

The effect of hurricane Mitch on the economy of Honduras.

Duration: 02:48

The greatest threat of flooding in the Netherlands has traditionally come from the sea. More recently, rivers have been responsible for flooding as people have increasingly built on floodplains.

Duration: 02:27

News footage of the effects of the 2009 wildfires around Athens and responses to them.

Duration: 03:28

Experts explain the relatively rare set of conditions needed to generate a hurricane.

Duration: 05:32

Physicist Helen Czerski goes to Mexico to show how hurricanes are formed. She shows how they are produced by Earth's rotation and an effect called the “coriolis”.

Duration: 07:34

By going to a real tornado in the USA, Helen Czerski explains how tornados are formed. She identifies some impacts of Spring time storms, such as flooding and dust storms.

Duration: 04:13

In 1999, Hurricane Floyd's effected on the landscape and population of Florida and North Carolina.

Duration: 02:41

Comparing actual damage from Hurricane Katrina and a digital model tests the accuracy of computer forecasting of the impacts of hurricanes.

Duration: 02:08

Honduras's dependence on agricultural exports makes it particularly vulnerable when there's a hurricane.

Duration: 01:32

Heavy rainfall in August 2010 contributed to a series of landslides in north-western China.

Duration: 02:39

Exceptional monsoon rains in 2010 led to devastating floods across large areas of Pakistan.

Duration: 03:48

The BBC World Service reports on the devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010 caused by the monsoon rains.

Duration: 02:20

Members of Pakistan's military rescue stranded villagers during the monsoon floods of August 2010.

Duration: 01:55

The BBC correspondent Orla Guerin reports on rescue efforts in Pakistan during the floods of August 2010.

Duration: 03:11

Professor Ivor Van Heerden of the LSU Hurricane Centre creates a forensic time map to investigate when and why the New Orleans levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.

Duration: 03:33

Professor Iain Stewart describes the theory that a volcano-triggered tsunami was the inspiration for the Bible story of God parting the Red Sea to save Moses and his Hebrew followers

Duration: 03:15

Hurricane Mitch triggered a major relief effort.

Duration: 03:30

The development and effects of category five hurricane Mitch.

Duration: 3:21

In 1953, a powerful storm surge affected sections of the East coast of Britain. Residents of Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary were badly affected by coastal flooding.

Duration: 01:55

The BBC's Fergus Walsh explains how the weather, the nature of the land and human geography combined to create the Boscastle floods of 2004.

Duration: 01:35

A prolonged heatwave in July and August 2010 led to wildfires and smog in western Russia.