Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from ...

Climate change-driven disaster risks are having a measurable impact on property insurance rates and home values, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper. Processing Content In ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Weeks after wildfires burned more than 16,000 ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...

Natural disasters in Iowa that cause millions and even billions of dollars damage are becoming more frequent, which some experts blame on our changing climate. The 15th annual Iowa Climate Statement ...

FEMA is experiencing layoffs, budget cuts, grant cancellations and other challenges at the start of wildfire and hurricane season. President Trump wants to shift disaster response responsibilities ...

A new report released by the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice concluded that Hawaii’s property insurance market — particularly for condominiums — is becoming increasingly unstable ...