Yu Wang receives funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project-ID: 72302033). Michel Magnan and Yetaotao Qiu do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

As flames torched the woods and hills surrounding them and thick plumes of black smoke turned day into night, a bus driver and two teachers evacuated 23 school children to safety during the 2018 Camp ...

Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

California’s private insurers are abandoning homeowners and dodging payouts while padding executives’ pockets. A public disaster insurance system would cover everyone automatically, spread risk fairly ...

One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, when a 40-line inscription carved into calcite detailed the abnormal ...

As we head into 2026, the insurance industry will begin to divest itself of the dangerous assumption that the past is a reliable guide to current flood risk. The escalating impacts of climate change ...

Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers. For the first time in a decade, the U.S. was spared by a direct hurricane hit in 2025. But claim costs for non-peak ...

Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires can strike almost anywhere, but not all states are equally vulnerable. Some parts of the US are far less likely to experience major natural disasters.

To end the year, we looked back to the first half of 2025, when a series of deadly and destructive natural disasters slammed the commonwealth. This week's Sunday cover story focused on how Kentucky ...

The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) faces severe challenges due to its vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, resulting in economic repercussions such as erosion, flooding, droughts ...