From 1980 to 2000, the United States sustained 48 weather-related disasters that exceeded at least $1 billion in damages and ...

Insurers used to fear a handful of blockbuster catastrophes each year. Now the real budget killer is a relentless stream of ...

Never before has the insurance industry faced such big losses tied to floods, severe thunderstorms and wildfires, according ...

Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.

Temporary protected status is provided to immigrants from some countries facing safety conditions, such as environmental ...

Towering ships weighing tens of thousands of tons approach waters that have wrecked hundreds before them. Strong currents, ...

Throughout 2025, America was rocked by a staggering number of weather-related disasters that caused severe consequences.

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

NOAA began tracking billion-dollar disasters in 1980. Since then the U.S. has sustained 426 billion-dollar disasters, with a ...

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

Abstract: Extreme weather events are increasing blackout durations, exposing limitations in solar-plus-battery microgrids that must sustain critical loads after disasters. We propose a ...