Climate disasters have become increasingly commonplace and increasingly destructive. The worst year was 2017 where a ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern ...

Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary ...

Eaton Fire victim Ray Ahn amid the rubble of his burned-out home in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 21. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The first half of this year was the costliest ...

The politics of climate change have long been powered by a sense of permanent emergency, a drumbeat of looming catastrophe ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...

Climate change caused by human activity has taken over many agendas, subsuming other topics within its fold. To achieve and continue sustainability, it should be the other way around, placing climate ...