When examining climate disasters, it’s important to distinguish them from weather events unrelated to climate change and from ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

Climate change-driven disaster risks are having a measurable impact on property insurance rates and home values, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper. Processing Content In ...

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

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Weeks after wildfires burned more than 16,000 ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

Natural disasters in Iowa that cause millions and even billions of dollars damage are becoming more frequent, which some experts blame on our changing climate. The 15th annual Iowa Climate Statement ...

The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP—Getty Images Editor at Large Every natural ...

A new report released by the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice concluded that Hawaii’s property insurance market — particularly for condominiums — is becoming increasingly unstable ...

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 ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...