The U.S. faced 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025, totaling $101.4 billion in damages, according to data from Climate Central. January's Los Angeles ...

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 ...

How do extreme weather events and disasters affect communities long term? Solomon Hsiang discusses the impacts on economic growth and health, and how research can improve emergency management and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought nonessential work to a halt across the country as thousands of ...

News coverage of major hurricanes, flash floods, extreme wildfires and other weather disasters often follows a familiar cadence. Headlines announce catastrophic devastation. Death tolls are tallied.

Climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug supply chain, a new study says. Nearly two-thirds of all U.S. pharmaceutical ...