For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster dataset tracked America’s most ...

From heatwaves to floods and storms, these five disasters show how warming is overwhelming economies, systems and resilience ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related ...

The United States is home to millions of small businesses that form the backbone of countless communities. Even during the best of times keeping shops solvent can be a struggle, but when ...

Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura ...

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 ...

Back in 2018, Yale economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize for his work on his Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) model. The idea was to set up a picture of the global economy, add on ...

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 ...