When a hurricane or a wildfire strikes, the economic damage is usually very visible — roofs are ripped off or...
Articles by Leslie Kaufman
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and...
As climate change worsens extreme weather around the US, floods are increasing the risk of home foreclosure, according to a...
With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest,...
“Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as...
In the era of cutting-edge computer modeling, satellite data and AI, there has never been more abundant information on the...
The conflagrations tearing across Los Angeles are on track to be among the most expensive wildfire disasters in U.S. history,...
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast US, it’s already clear that...
As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the...
On Thursday night Helene crashed into Florida’s coast as a Category 4 hurricane. The giant storm with 140-mile-per-hour winds made...