The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.
may have ended without any landfalling hurricanes, but 23 weather- and climate-related disasters topped one billion dollars ...
At a time when many people believed the United States had already absorbed the worst damage to its climate systems, early ...
When examining climate disasters, it’s important to distinguish them from weather events unrelated to climate change and from ...
Researchers catalogued the most costly U.S. storms, wildfires and floods after the Trump administration halted a federal ...
A record-setting 21 thunderstorm events each caused at least $1 billion in damages, a sign that more people and property are ...
The time between disasters has also grown shorter. In the 1980s, the average gap between billion-dollar disasters was about ...
Many deaths and full extent of damage in poorer countries go missing from global because they are not insured, report finds ...
While the United States witnessed the most expensive climate disaster of this year, Asia accounted for four of the six ...
These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried ...
For insurers, the cost of climate risk is well-established and increasing. In the first half of 2025, natural disasters ...
A new analysis finds that in 2025 disasters in the U.S. took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been ...