Around the world, communities are battling more extreme weather events. That includes residents in the path of Cyclone Narelle, which is threatening to form again over Western Australia. But another ...

Natural disasters vary widely across the United States depending on geography and climate. Some regions regularly experience hurricanes or wildfires, while others face blizzards, floods, tornadoes, or ...

Damage is seen at Tyndall Air Force Base following a hurricane in 2018. (Image via U.S. Government Accountability Office) The U.S. Department of Defense has not sufficiently tracked the cost of ...

Natural disasters have caused billions of dollars in damage to military installations over the past decade. Military installations we reviewed have taken steps to improve resilience to prevent or ...

Yu Wang receives funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project-ID: 72302033). Michel Magnan and Yetaotao Qiu do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

We are the survivors of natural disasters that have devastated our communities: the floods in Texas, tornadoes in Missouri, wildfires in California and hurricanes in North Carolina. Over the past year ...

For many Californians, it was supposed to be a quiet Christmas; a chance to slow down and spend time with family and friends. Instead, a powerful storm dropped 12 inches of rain in parts of the state, ...

Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh The human and environmental impact of the recent floods in Sumatra is the result of years of ecological destruction and ...

Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers. For the first time in a decade, the U.S. was spared by a direct hurricane hit in 2025. But claim costs for non-peak ...

To end the year, we looked back to the first half of 2025, when a series of deadly and destructive natural disasters slammed the commonwealth. This week's Sunday cover story focused on how Kentucky ...