Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk. By Max Bearak and Hiroko Tabuchi Officials in Texas ...

Coal mining has produced some of the deadliest industrial accidents in modern history. From methane explosions and coal dust ignition to structural collapse and flooding, the industry’s worst ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide. Today ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

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 ...

More than 110 million people were affected by 358 reported disasters in 2025, according to the annual report by the Emergency Events Database. The year was consistent with a typical year of disaster ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...

Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...