Climate disasters have become increasingly commonplace and increasingly destructive. The worst year was 2017 where a ...
Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary ...
Eaton Fire victim Ray Ahn amid the rubble of his burned-out home in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 21. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The first half of this year was the costliest ...
Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...
The politics of climate change have long been powered by a sense of permanent emergency, a drumbeat of looming catastrophe ...
It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...