The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ended a yearslong investigation into how the General Land Office ...

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

Hurricane Melissa tore off roofs and stripped trees of their leaves, including in many parts of Jamaica hit by Hurricane Beryl a year earlier. Ricardo Makyn/AFP via Getty Images Jamaica was still ...

Even if we can’t control the weather, we can control our response. In the midst of hurricane season, we wanted to reflect on how, when businesses and nonprofits partner together, they can have ...

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

Investing in pre-disaster mitigation can save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing the cost of recovery from natural disasters, while also providing strong protections to vulnerable local ...

Eight of the 10 costliest natural disasters in U.S. history have been hurricanes, and damage from Hurricane Ian cost nearly $113 billion dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster in America in ...

Many have spent much of their career studying disasters—how people perceive risk, how institutions communicate, and why ...

Climate disasters have become increasingly commonplace and increasingly destructive. The worst year was 2017 where a ...

This year is on track to become not only one of the hottest on record, but also one that’s recorded some of the wettest months, harshest wildfires, and most devastating flooding. Scientists have ...

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The ...

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as ...