The conflagrations tearing across Los Angeles are on track to be among the most expensive wildfire disasters in U.S. history,...
Articles by Leslie Kaufman
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...
Greenhouse gases produced by human activity made the recent deadly flooding in Brazil twice as likely as it would have...
Climate change is particularly perilous for small farmers. Warmer conditions are resulting in more damaging bouts of rain and drought,...
The United States and the Philippines are the countries hit hardest by climate-driven extreme weather, measured as a percentage of...