Californian wildfires was the most expensive climate catastrophe this year, as disasters brought on by global heating ...

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 ...

Global aid systems are losing billions of pounds by waiting until after disasters strike – instead of acting early to protect people and economies, according to a new analysis. Investing in resilience ...

Areas of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Federal disaster aid following these events was thousands of times greater than the reserve funds of Louisiana ...

Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene ripped through Western North Carolina, John Council still keeps an overnight bag packed. The storm flooded roads, knocked out power for more than two weeks, and ...

Why use a threshold of $1 billion? Even though $1B is an arbitrary threshold, these specific events account for the majority (>80%) of the damage from all recorded U.S. weather and climate events ...