In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion ...

The time between disasters has also grown shorter. In the 1980s, the average gap between billion-dollar disasters was about ...

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could ...

USDA is launching the next phase of its Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), aimed at farmers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024. This new round — Stage 2 — was ...

The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought work determined by the Trump administration to be "nonessential" to a halt across the country as thousands of federal employees have been furloughed and ...

Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on the rise. Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows ...

A new analysis finds that in 2025, disasters in the U.S. took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.