The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...

News coverage of major hurricanes, flash floods, extreme wildfires and other weather disasters often follows a familiar cadence. Headlines announce catastrophic devastation. Death tolls are tallied.

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it. By Scott Dance The Trump administration this year ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...

A blowout on an offshore drilling platform turned Santa Barbara’s coastline into a toxic disaster zone. This documentary ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought nonessential work to a halt across the country as thousands of ...