Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s no secret that extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more expensive across the United States. This year has been no exception. Between January and June, the country ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Ten years ago this week, the Aliso Canyon facility near Porter Ranch spewed about 120,000 tons of methane and ...

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it. By Scott Dance The Trump administration this year ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...