More and more people are packing up and leaving, not for new jobs or adventures, but because the weather is repeatedly ...

More than 300 representatives from community-based organizations, public health, emergency management, academia, utilities, ...

Two-thirds of Americans are not prepared if a weather disaster were to strike their location, according to Allstate Insurance. NBC Connecticut was able to speak to two catastrophe claim leaders at ...

Last month, Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica and surrounding islands and broke records for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to hit land. Deadly heatwaves in Europe, floods in Pakistan, and fires in ...

With climate change driving the frequency and severity of extreme weather, traditional models that supported risk assessment are struggling.

DENVER — The federal government will no longer update a high-profile database that tracks the financial toll of major natural disasters in the United States, a move some scientists say could have ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler The Amazon is often treated as a single forest, yet the risks its people face from extreme weather vary sharply across borders. A new analysis by researchers from Brazil, Ecuador ...

This week’s killer freeze in the U.S. was no surprise. Government and private meteorologists saw it coming, some nearly three weeks in advance. They started sounding warnings two weeks ahead of time.

Catastrophe bonds are a growing form of investment that can be used to fund recovery from damage in climate-related disasters. Their structure can be attractive to both issuers and investors, but ...

Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold rides a motorised fishing boat through Colombo's suburbs, hoping to bring food and water to those in desperate need. Some of the families, Mr Reginold says, ...

Japan will start operating a revamped weather warning system in late May to help speed evacuation decisions based on the severity of natural disasters, the weather agency and the land ministry said ...