Weather disasters in the first half of this year have cost the United States $93 billion in damage, according to a report released Tuesday by a German multinational insurance company. The analysis by ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

The charts above show the 46-year history of U.S. ‘compound extremes’ (e.g., billion dollar disaster events that occur at the same time or in sequence). The physical and socioeconomic impacts of ...

Climate change-driven extreme weather events threaten the US pharmaceutical supply chain, with 62.8% of facilities in disaster-prone counties. Hurricane Helene in 2024 highlighted the vulnerability of ...

The first half of 2025 logged the most damaging extreme weather on record in terms of cost, even after accounting for inflation, data shows. This is partly because of a handful of extraordinary events ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...

Researchers found 6819 active facilities (62.8%) were located in counties where a disaster was declared. HealthDay News — More than 60% of drug production facilities were located in US counties with ...

A glimmer of truth seeped out through the pages of The New York Times (NYT) recently, in a story examining how “unprepared” large parts of the nation are in the face of natural disasters. Although it ...

Weather disasters in the first half of this year have cost the United States $93 billion in damage, according to a report released Tuesday by a German multinational insurance company. The analysis by ...

Why use a threshold of $1 billion? Even though $1B is an arbitrary threshold, these specific events account for the majority (>80%) of the damage from all recorded U.S. weather and climate events ...