The free digital tool that the US government gives communities to help evaluate local risks from 18 natural hazards is...
Articles by Leslie Kaufman
There are more than 170 trillion tiny plastic particles — or 2 million tons of them — floating on the...
Is it possible to predict exactly where the wind will blow? How about where it will blow 30 years from...
In a quiet commercial strip in an upscale suburb of Nashville, there’s a single-story brick building housing a company that...
Homeowners in the US got new guidance to help them defend against increasingly frequent wildfires and associated rising insurance premiums....
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency rolled out a major overhaul to its beleaguered National Flood Insurance Program last April,...
The federal government Friday rolled out a flood-insurance program revamped to reflect worsening climate change, a program that will raise...
A California moratorium guaranteeing insurance in wildfire-threatened areas lapsed Saturday, putting 347,000 homes in Pasadena and other Los Angeles foothills...
Deanne Criswell, the first woman to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in April took over a 20,000-person operation exhausted...
On Aug. 25, the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, which dumped about 50 inches of rain on Houston, Mayor Sylvester...