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Natural disasters news API

Earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfires and their aftermath. Pass topic=NATURAL_DISASTER to filter.

3.1karticles
1537outlets
2per outlet

What does the natural disasters topic actually cover?

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.

How do I filter news to natural disasters?

Pass topic=NATURAL_DISASTER on /search or /stories. 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.

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

What catches people out with natural disasters coverage?

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.

In the sample, 1537 outlets carry natural disasters coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is tribunnews.com at roughly 2%, and tribunnews.com, inewsgr.com, naslovi.net account for about 4% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

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. Recovery and reconstruction coverage is the half that is almost never monitored. Attention collapses within days of an event while the consequential decisions — funding, rebuilding standards, relocation — are taken over the following months and reported locally at a fraction of the volume. A window sized to the disaster captures the damage and none of the response.

Which signals pair with natural disasters?

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.

HTTP 
GET /search?topic=NATURAL_DISASTER&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.