White House Proposes Elimination of NOAA Climate Research in Budget Proposal April 15, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici The administration of President Donald Trump aims to eliminate the arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that oversees...
Trump’s Science Cuts Have Thrown the Research World Into Chaos March 17, 2025 By Zahra Hirji, Jessica Nix, Lauren Rosenthal and Janet Lorin Harvard University is imposing a temporary freeze on hiring faculty. Columbia University is grappling with cuts to $400 million in...
William & Mary to Expand Climate Studies, Coastal Research with $100 Million Gift July 26, 2024 By Ben Finley William & Mary has received a $100 million donation that aims to help the world’s coastal communities adapt to changing...
Climate Change Caused $8 Billion of Hurricane Sandy’s Economic Losses: Study May 20, 2021 By Kanupriya Kapoor When Hurricane Sandy barreled over New York City and the East Coast in 2012, it caused $63 billion in damage,...
How Climate Change May Affect Hurricane Risk and Losses: AIR, Brookings, AXIS January 19, 2021 By 2050, climate change-related weather events will have a meaningful impact on future hurricane losses, increasing them by 20% or...
Nonprofit Opening Flood Risk Model to Researchers and Public January 14, 2020 A nonprofit flood risk research organization is offering the first publicly available flood risk model that predicts the probability of...
U.S. Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint Over Order to Stop Climate Work August 15, 2019 By Timothy Gardner A climate scientist for the Trump administration’s health protection agency who was ordered by his agency to drop work on...
Report: Southeast States Unprepared for Future Risks from Climate Change December 11, 2015 Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought,...
States Graded ‘A’ to ‘F’ for Extreme Weather Preparedness November 20, 2015 By Andrew G. Simpson Many states across the country are unprepared to face the risks posed extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding...
Researchers Find Link Between Atlantic Hurricanes and Amazon Wildfires August 24, 2015 Researchers have uncovered a “remarkably strong link” between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the hurricanes that ravage...