Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Stressing the urgent need to address the growing threat of climate-induced disasters, US-based environmental expert Subijoy Dutta has called for comprehensive scientific studies on extreme weather ...

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from Climate Central. There were 23 such events in 2025, causing 276 fatalities ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Between June 20-24, a heat dome, or the presence of high heat over ...

There have been 27 major disaster declarations issued by President Trump so far in 2025. The disasters range in size and scope, from the L.A. wildfires to Midwest tornadoes and the Texas flooding as ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

(CNN) — The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first ...

How do extreme weather events and disasters affect communities long term? Solomon Hsiang discusses the impacts on economic growth and health, and how research can improve emergency management and ...

Engineering has built the most spectacular wonders of the modern world, but what happens when the technology that people trust their lives with fails? Premiering on HISTORY Saturday, April 11 at 10 PM ...

a damaged Florida home amidst debris after a hurricane - Chuyn/Getty Images One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze ...

In the aftermath of another summer of weather disasters, there were headlines about a “growing gap” between recovery efforts and preparation for climate change impacts. There were calls for a rethink ...

One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, when a 40-line inscription carved into calcite detailed the abnormal ...