For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster dataset tracked America’s most ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Reporter Severe storms hit the Pittsburgh area earlier this week—killing three and causing ...

From extreme heat waves and catastrophic flooding to devastating wildfires and hurricanes, human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events in the United States and its territories more ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News“ is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...

Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura ...

The United States is home to millions of small businesses that form the backbone of countless communities. Even during the best of times keeping shops solvent can be a struggle, but when ...

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 ...

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 ...