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 ...

Discontinued by the Trump administration in 2025, the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset and accompanying ...

Expert climate scientists at Columbia University have developed a new interactive tool that can help predict natural disasters so the government can prepare for them. They led the U.S. Natural Hazards ...

In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by ...

The European climate movement is faltering. State repression has escalated. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And even though ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Reporter Severe storms hit the Pittsburgh area earlier this week—killing three and causing ...

Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely in recent years, and the trend is expected to continue. These events have led to human and ...

In an instant, families and communities across the United States and around the world are seeing their lives, homes, and belongings wiped out by extreme weather disasters. From hurricanes and ...

Even while Congress was on session break, House Committee on Climate Change Chairwoman Aniela Tolentino took the initiative to convene a special committee hearing, underscoring the urgency and ...

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From extreme heat waves and catastrophic flooding to devastating wildfires and hurricanes, human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events in the United States and its territories more ...