Natural disasters news API

What this covers

Event reporting, damage assessment, response and recovery. Coverage is intensely concentrated in the first seventy-two hours and then falls away sharply, often well before the situation resolves.

Querying it

Query with a tight time bound and poll frequently during an event; a daily window is too coarse for the first day. Local-language coverage carries operational detail — road closures, shelter locations, specific damage — that international reporting omits entirely.

GET /stories?topic=NATURAL_DISASTER&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out

The volume curve does not track the severity curve. Coverage peaks early and decays fast regardless of how long recovery takes, so a drop in volume says nothing about whether conditions improved. For recovery monitoring, query the affected country directly rather than the topic.

Who publishes on it

Local and national outlets in the affected country first, then wires, then international coverage. The local reporting carries operational specifics — closures, shelters, named locations — and disappears from international coverage entirely within days.

What it is best for

Best for the first seventy-two hours of an event and for recovery monitoring via the affected country's own press. Weakest for anything beyond the initial peak, because coverage decays on a schedule unrelated to how long conditions persist.

Monitoring it over time

Poll on a much tighter cadence than any other topic during the first day, then step down. The operational detail that matters, such as closures, access and specific damage, exists almost entirely in local-language coverage and vanishes from the international stream within seventy-two hours, so anything needed for recovery monitoring has to be captured while it is still being published.

Signals that pair with it

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

• signal_climate
• signal_anxiety
• signal_supply_disruption

GET /search?topic=NATURAL_DISASTER&signal=signal_climate&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

tribunnews.com · inewsgr.com · naslovi.net · zazoom.it · merkur.de · haberler.com · indiatimes.com · hna.de · china.com · kreiszeitung.de · az-online.de · baidu.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.