CLIMATEWIRE | Natural disasters and human conflict forced about 66 million people to flee within their own countries last year, and the United States led all nations with 11 million of these ...

WELL, NEW AT SIX. THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION WILL NO LONGER TRACK THE COST OF EXTREME WEATHER DISASTERS. THE FEDERAL AGENCY SAYS IT IS RETIRING ITS WELL KNOWN DATABASE OF ...

First, the federal government has their backs. When state and local resources are insufficient for disaster response and recovery, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) arrives to help.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it ...

The upcoming Paramount Plus thriller, Little Disasters, delves into the decade-long friendship of four expectant mothers. The plot thickens when Jess, a stay-at-home mum, rushes her baby daughter ...

It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms. By Rebecca Dzombak and ...

A record 83.4 million people have been forced from their homes around the world, fuelled by an increase in disasters and conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday. "These figures are ...

Quietly, without much public fanfare, the agency announced that it will retire its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database after 2024. This isn’t just an administrative footnote.

Extreme weather events threaten millions of Americans with extended power outages each year, forcing emergency managers to quickly deploy reliable backup power. Whether responding to a hurricane ...

India recorded 5.4 million displacements in 2024 due to floods, storms and other disasters, the highest figure in 12 years, a new report said on Tuesday (May 13, 2025). The report by the Geneva ...

Governor Whitmer has requested a major disaster declaration for Northern Michigan following severe ice storms in late March. The ice storms caused extensive power outages, property damage ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On Tuesday evening, President Trump announced the decision to declare a major disaster in Arkansas for the storms and tornadoes that the state experienced in mid-March.