This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more ...
A midweek nor’easter, the second this month, carved away more sand from a vulnerable stretch of Jersey Shore beachfront, a ...
EPA’s recent decision to waive incinerator emission standards following hurricanes and other natural disasters is facing a ...
In the last year, extreme floods, fires, and storms wreaked havoc around the world. For the victims of these disasters, a whole other nightmare awaits them once the flames are contained and ...
Vanguard Charitable announced that its donor-advised fund clients hit a giving record, much of it in response to natural disasters. Donors directed their dollars to relief for the damage caused by ...
The Trump administration cut a NOAA program that had tracked weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damage. A ...
In 2024, the U.S. saw 27 weather and climate disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage. The total number of destructive disasters was just one shy of 2023’s record, according to the National ...
Relentless floods and other disasters highlight the need for better funding of response initiatives. Earthquakes in Indonesia, The Philippines and Russia, cyclones in China and Vietnam, drought in ...