Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel University and the University of Maryland suggests these climate events ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...

Scientists and emergency managers are trying to learn from disasters past. The amount of damage caused by billion-dollar disasters reached an unprecedented amount in 2024, and the total cost of the ...

Organizers say it’s important for North Carolina residents to prepare for natural disasters, such as wildfires, hurricanes and tornados. THE STATEWIDE BURN BAN. EXCUSE ME, IN NORTH CAROLINA, IS ...