The US Saw Record $101 Billion in Weather Losses Through June October 22, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal The U.S. saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025,...
La Niña Is Back, But It’s Weak And May Be Brief. Will It Still Amp up The Atlantic Hurricane Season? October 10, 2025 By Seth Borenstein La Niña, the cooler and at times costlier flip side of El Nino, has arrived to warp weather worldwide, meteorologists...
September Marks Rare Absence of Hurricane Landfalls in US October 1, 2025 By Ezra Amacher September turned out to be a slumber for hurricane watchers. For the first time in a decade, the month of...
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed August 6, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally...
As Hurricane Season Picks up, Key Forecasting Tool Access Set to End June 27, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K. Sullivan A week ago, U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasters predicted Hurricane Erick would intensify as it hit Mexico’s Pacific coastline. Now,...
Commerce Secretary Responds: NOAA ‘Fully Staffed’ With Forecasters, Scientists June 5, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is “fully staffed”...
No NOAA Large-Disaster Data Could Hurt Insurer Grasp of Secondary Perils, Says AM Best May 21, 2025 Insurance industry financial strength rating agency AM Best said today that a decision to stop updating a National Oceanic and...
Why Trump’s Plan to Stop Tallying Weather Losses Matters to the Insurance Industry May 9, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K. Sullivan Extreme weather is an increasingly expensive problem in the U.S. Last year, fires, droughts and storms caused more than $182...
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...
On The Heels of A Dry Winter, Firefighters Brace for Wildfire Risks April 3, 2025 By Ty Oneil and Susan Montoya Bryan From the southwestern U.S. to Minnesota, Iowa and even parts of New Jersey, it seemed that winter never materialized. Many...