Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive forces, leaving devastation in their wake. Today, we’re counting down the top 5 ...

The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...

Scientists say this likely puts Earth at greater risk of more extreme heat waves, hurricanes and significant loss of ...

A growing body of research shows the nation’s coral reefs protect $1.8 billion in economic assets each year and should be ...

Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods ... as fierce as a Category 2 Hurricane. Fires across the West have been getting worse in recent years. In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa ...

The heat waves are characterized by an ocean area ... It leaped from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. Across all the tropical systems that the Times analyzed, the ...

Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across ...

Jan–Nov 2024 was the warmest such period on record—2.30°F (1.28°C) above the 20th-century average. According to the #NCEI ...

All of this continued an unprecedented wave of natural disasters that featured Hurricane Ian on Sept. 28, 2022, the third costliest storm in U.S. history. Ian was just short of a Category 5 storm.

Earth reached its warmest year on record in 2024, according to data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change ...

In 2024, global warming hit a new high as temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold, highlighting urgent ...