From heatwaves to floods and storms, these five disasters show how warming is overwhelming economies, systems and resilience ...
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America’s $1 billion climate disasters

For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster dataset tracked America’s most ...
No county in Massachusetts has been spared from climate disasters in the last 13 years, according to a new report released ...
From raging wildfires and powerful earthquakes to devastating floods, cyclones and hurricanes, the year 2025, saw a series of ...
The COP30 outcome offers an illustration of the fractured, complicated state of climate action in 2025. Some countries ...
The charts above show the 46-year history of U.S. ‘compound extremes’ (e.g., billion dollar disaster events that occur at the same time or in sequence). The physical and socioeconomic impacts of ...
The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.
Last year, record wildfires fueled by dry conditions incinerated large swaths of Bolivia’s forests, wetlands and other ecosystems, burning an area larger than the state of Indiana. The blazes ...
After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal ...
This Christmas could be brutal for Southern California, where weather forecasters predict record rainfall. One concern stems ...
Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura ...
The generation coming into the world now is expected will face unprecedented extreme weather events throughout their lives. A woman sits with her baby among destroyed houses in the Passo de Estrela ...