Mother Nature has a way of reminding us who’s really in charge. Throughout history, weather events have stopped armies in their tracks, wiped out entire cities, and forced millions of people to pack ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

It is hard to believe that the greatest climate disaster in American history occurred only 125 years ago. What would now be called a Category 4 hurricane made landfall at Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900.

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.

From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it. By Scott Dance The Trump administration this year ...

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In 2024, Hurricane Helene triggered a nationwide shortage of the country's intravenous (IV) fluids after damaging a facility in North Carolina. A similar IV fluid shortage was caused when Hurricane ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...