With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest,...
Articles by Leslie Kaufman
“Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as...
In the era of cutting-edge computer modeling, satellite data and AI, there has never been more abundant information on the...
The conflagrations tearing across Los Angeles are on track to be among the most expensive wildfire disasters in U.S. history,...
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast US, it’s already clear that...
As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the...
On Thursday night Helene crashed into Florida’s coast as a Category 4 hurricane. The giant storm with 140-mile-per-hour winds made...
The US Congress passed the Coastal Barrier Resources Act in 1982 to preserve relatively undeveloped waterfront areas as natural buffer...
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has finalized a rule mandating that projects built using its funds not only...
This has been a year of insurance sticker shock in the US. But the man who provides insurance to insurers...