Here Comes Another Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season, But Will It Be as Crazy as 2024? May 23, 2025 By Seth Borenstein With warmer than normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting yet another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic. But they...
FEMA Chief Says Agency Will Raise State Burden for Disasters to 50% May 15, 2025 By Leah Douglas and Nathan Layne David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future...
White House Proposes to Eliminate NOAA Climate Research in Budget Proposal April 14, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici and Nichola Groom The administration of President Donald Trump aims to eliminate the arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that oversees...
A California City Is Pioneering Urban-Scale Insurance for Climate Disasters March 13, 2025 By Leslie Kaufman “Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as...
U.S. Coastal Communities Get $575M to Guard Against Floods, Other Climate Disasters July 30, 2024 By Wayne Parry The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures...
Viewpoint: AI’s Heroic Impact on Extreme Weather and NatCat Events June 21, 2024 By Suhas Sethi and Jeff Saye Hundred-year storms. Record wildfires. Unexpected tornados. These and other extreme weather and national catastrophe events are happening more often today...
NICB: Contractor Fraud Costs U.S. Residents Billions Yearly May 20, 2024 With 28 separate natural disaster events costing at least $1 billion and totaling more than $93 billion in catastrophe losses,...
Fires and Other Disasters are Increasing in Hawaii, According to AP Data Analysis August 18, 2023 By Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Bobby Caina Calvan KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides. Lava that creeps into neighborhoods. Fierce drought that materializes in a...
Extreme Weather is Nearly Universal Experience: AP-NORC poll April 25, 2023 By Hannah Fingerhut WASHINGTON (AP) — An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather...
Drive for Climate Compensation Grows After Pakistan’s Floods October 11, 2022 By Riazat Butt and Adil Jawad Khan DADU, Pakistan (AP) — Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The...