WASHINGTON, D.C. – Louisiana is a state dealing with not one, but two multi-billion-dollar natural disasters within the span of six weeks: Hurricanes Laura and Delta. “This family had just moved in ...
(AP/NEXSTAR) – A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames. Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s ...
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 ...
Puerto Rico has seen a string of natural disasters in the past few years – hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and landslides. When COVID-19 hit in 2020, things got even worse. These disasters have taken ...
In the past five years alone, natural disasters have wrought billions of dollars in costs and damages across the country — over $616 billion to be more precise. Just last year alone, there were 492 ...
Extreme weather, amplified by climate change, has raised insurer risks and insurance rates for U.S. homeowners, especially in the last decade. Damages from large natural disasters have soared from ...
The Committee on Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities, 2020–2021 recognizes the important contribution of terms and definitions offered previously by scholars and researchers and reflected ...
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month and coinciding with this event, The Conference Board has just released its periodic report on corporate support of disasters entitled, Disaster ...