Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

The politics of climate change have long been powered by a sense of permanent emergency, a drumbeat of looming catastrophe ...

Climate change-driven disaster risks are having a measurable impact on property insurance rates and home values, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper. Processing Content In ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Weeks after wildfires burned more than 16,000 ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

The notable acceleration of global climate change is increasingly impacting healthcare, putting nurses on the frontlines of natural disaster relief more frequently than ever. Nurses play an essential ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

Natural disasters in Iowa that cause millions and even billions of dollars damage are becoming more frequent, which some experts blame on our changing climate. The 15th annual Iowa Climate Statement ...

A new report released by the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice concluded that Hawaii’s property insurance market — particularly for condominiums — is becoming increasingly unstable ...