These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried ...

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

With the climate crisis denial party now in control of all three branches of the federal government, some otherwise indifferent members of Congress need to carefully consider that the most immediate ...

A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing changes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ...

For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster dataset tracked America’s most ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Big Oil faces mounting lawsuits as extreme weather worsens, with California leading efforts to make fossil fuel giants ...

In an instant, families and communities across the United States and around the world are seeing their lives, homes, and belongings wiped out by extreme weather disasters. From hurricanes and ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Reporter Severe storms hit the Pittsburgh area earlier this week—killing three and causing ...

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From extreme heat waves and catastrophic flooding to devastating wildfires and hurricanes, human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events in the United States and its territories more ...

The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) faces severe challenges due to its vulnerability to climate change and natural ...